The Collaborative International 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.]
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To beat, pound, or bray together.
Roots, barks, and seeds contused together.
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To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.
Contused wound, a wound attended with bruising.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.
WordNet
v. injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of; "I bruised my knee" [syn: bruise]
Usage examples of "contuse".
More Frenchmen press, and roaring antiphons Of cannonry contuse the roofs and walls and trees.
She pulled aside the long gown and revealed wounds so ugly and vividly contused that several people recoiled.
One rescued girl had a broken leg, and a boy was concussed, his face badly contused, and a long wound giving his hair a new parting.
One rescued girl had a broken leg and the boy was concussed, his face badly contused and a long wound giving his hair a new parting.
What she could see of his face was contused and distorted, but enough like the fots she'd examined to leave little question about who he was.
Then, as the flyer came gently down on the landing pad, he blinked and saw the ship for a moment silhouetted against the bright sky, only sleek lines and smooth design, without the contusing detail of the OG colors and logo, and he knew where he'd seen a ship like that before.
I kicked him in what I hoped was the kidneys and watched him stumble to one side, then something banged into the top of my head and hit my shoulder, contusing me.
Where the domes intersected, gigantic conical megatowers soared up into the contused sky.