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
- adrenogenital
- adrenoleucodystrophy
- adrenoleukodystrophy
- adrenolytic
- adrenomedullary
- adrenotrophic
- adrenotropic
- adret
- Adriamycin
- Adrian IV
- Adriatic
- Adriatic, Marriage of the
- Adriatic Sea
- adrift
- adrip
- adrogate
- adrogated
- adrogating
- adrogation
- adrogator
- adroit
- adroitly
- adroitness
- adroop
- a drop in the ocean (or bucket)