contuse
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of contuse
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Latin contūsus, past participle of contundere “to bruise, crush,” equivalent to con- “with, together” + tud- (root with nasal infix of tundere “to beat”) + -tus past participle suffix, with -dt- becoming -s- ; see con-
Example Sentences
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In this geographical dissertation the word Niger is still used, which is a name altogether unknown in Africa, and calculated to contuse the geographical enquirer.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
No bald Mare my Gammon shall contuse again by one more Toss.
From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 by Novak, Maximillian E.
“The contused areas show the swelling to be receding.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2018
That day, he’d seen an elderly man who had taken a bad spill two or three weeks earlier, resulting in a contused kidney and a compression fracture of his lower spine.
From The New Yorker ● May 4, 2015
I’m all in favor of marketers evolving beyond the farting animals and contused groins of Super Bowls past.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2015
Her aunts, Faith and Doreen, are superficially brassy but contused underneath.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
And now he forgot the pain of his contused ankle, as, full of interest he stood within this wonderful tomb.
From The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Mitford, Bertram
No one, sir, could have made an amputation of it, without severely contusing his conscience.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman
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