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Contuse

//kənˈtuz// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise. transitive

    "How many uteruses, vaginas and perineums, suppose you, would we have to contuse and lacerate before we acquired the amount of skill and dexterity to which the gentlemen who advocate the forceps have attained?"

  2. 2
    injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of wordnet

Etymology

From (the participle stem of) Latin contundere (“pound or beat small”), from com- + tundere (“beat, thump”).

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