contuse
/kənˈtjuːz
/verb [with object] Medicine
Injure (a part of the body) without breaking the skin, forming a bruise: the whole region beneath the ribcage was contused...
- However, it was contused and bruised such that it was unusable as a conduit.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin contus- 'bruised, crushed', from the verb contundere, from con- 'together' + tundere 'beat, thump'.
Rhymes
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- human subject
- human T cell lymphotropic virus
- humantin
- human torpedo
- human trafficker
- human trafficking
- Humber
- Humberside
- humble
- humble-bee
- humblebrag
- humbleness
- humbly
- Humboldt, Alexander von
- Humboldt Current
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- humbug
- humbuggery
- humdinger
- humdrum
- Humean
- humect
- humectant
- Hume, David