contuse
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In this geographical dissertation the word Niger is still used, which is a name altogether unknown in Africa, and calculated to contuse the geographical enquirer.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
No bald Mare my Gammon shall contuse again by one more Toss.
From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 by Maximillian E. Novak
“The contused areas show the swelling to be receding.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2018
That day, he’d seen an elderly man who had taken a bad spill two or three weeks earlier, resulting in a contused kidney and a compression fracture of his lower spine.
From The New Yorker ● May 4, 2015
I’m all in favor of marketers evolving beyond the farting animals and contused groins of Super Bowls past.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2015
Her aunts, Faith and Doreen, are superficially brassy but contused underneath.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
He paused, staring from the yellow faces of the pugilists to the battered and contused features of his own seamen.
From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
No one, sir, could have made an amputation of it, without severely contusing his conscience.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
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