contuse
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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
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
“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
Considerable variation also exists in the size of the circular apertures; this illustrates the secondary enlargement often occurring in such wounds, and most marked at the apertures of entry, as the more contused.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
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
