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v. To injure without breaking the skin; bruise.

v. To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.

v. To beat, pound, or bray together.

v. To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.

1. To beat; bruise; pound; pulverize by beating.

To injure the flesh of, by impact of a blunt surface, with or without a breach of the integument; bruise by violent contact or pressure. If the injury is accompanied by a breaking of the skin, it is called a contused wound; if not, a contusion.

v. injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of

"Those weapons which graze the bone obliquely are less apt to fracture, contuse, or depress the bone, even when the bone is denuded of flesh; for in some of those wounds thus inflicted the bone is not laid bare of the flesh."

contused    contuses    contusing   

injure    wound   

crush    jam   

bruise