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  • verb Present participle of contuse.

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Examples

  • “Grenier rang me … Sabin-Levesque was murdered with a blunt, or what the reports call a contusing, instrument.

    Maigret and Monsieur Charles Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1972

  • = -- A wound is a condition produced by a forcible cutting, contusing, or tearing of the tissues of the body, and includes, in its larger sense, bruises, sprains, dislocations, and breaks or fractures of bones.

    The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

  • Sounds from women, children, and crowds can be contusing to men—they all tend to blend together like ingredients in a frozen smoothie, so they can’t be differentiated.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • Sounds from women, children, and crowds can be contusing to men—they all tend to blend together like ingredients in a frozen smoothie, so they can’t be differentiated.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • Sounds from women, children, and crowds can be contusing to men—they all tend to blend together like ingredients in a frozen smoothie, so they can’t be differentiated.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

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