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Contuse definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONTUSE, v.t. [L.] To beat; to bruise; to injure the flesh or substance of a living being or other thing without breaking the skin or substance, sometimes with a breach of the skin or substance.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of; "I bruised my knee" [syn: bruise, contuse]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb see contusion

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. injure without breaking the skin; bruise. Derivatives: contusion n. Etymology: L contundere contus- (as COM-, tundere thump)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Contuse Con*tuse", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Contused; p. pr. & vb. n. Contusing.] [L. contusus, p. p. of contundere to beat, crush; con- + tundere to beat, akin to Skr. tud (for stud) to strike, Goth. stautan. See Stutter.] 1. To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. --Bacon. 2. To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin. Contused wound, a wound attended with bruising.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Bruise, crush, squeeze.