Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective injured without breaking the skin.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
contuse .
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Examples
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Giovanni Vigo (c. 1460-1520), surgeon-in-ordinary to Pope Julius II, gunshot wounds were classified as contused, burned, and poisoned, and the last-named, on the supposition that all gunshot wounds were poisoned by powder, were cauterized with red-hot iron or hot oil.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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His lips were a contused, shapeless mass, and his mouth was full of blood and broken teeth.
MAUKI 2010
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When the police lifted the towel, the man's face was so badly contused that the police became sick to their stomachs.
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When the police lifted the towel, the man's face was so badly contused that the police became sick to their stomachs.
John W. Whitehead: Helter Skelter: Racism and Murder John W. Whitehead 2010
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The spot on his left side where the mallet had struck was an ugly contused swelling, a black and purple patch bigger than Sir Marcus's hand.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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When the police lifted the towel, the man's face was so badly contused that the police became sick to their stomachs.
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The ER was a mixed blessing: her insides were burnt and lacerated and her arms were a contused mess, but they all thought she was crazy.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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When the police lifted the towel, the man's face was so badly contused that the police became sick to their stomachs.
John W. Whitehead: Charles Manson's Race War: The Beatles and Helter Skelter 2009
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Was it my wrist contused in the sarcophagic groove
Carol Moldaw reads Gjertrud Schnackenberg Lemon Hound 2008
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Was it my wrist contused in the sarcophagic groove
Archive 2008-10-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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