Contused

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  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of contuse.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. injured without breaking the skin.
    • Word Usage
    "Giovanni Vigo (c. 1460-1520), surgeon-in-ordinary to Pope Julius II, gunshot wounds were classified as contused, burned, and poisoned, and the last-named, on the supposition that all gunshot wounds were poisoned by powder, were cauterized with red-hot iron or hot oil."
    Equivalent
    contusioned   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bruised   
    Verb Stem
    contuse   
     
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