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Concuss

Definition: Concuss

Concuss

Verb

1. Shake violently.

2. Injure the brain; sustain a concussion.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Concuss \Con*cuss"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression concussus, past participle of concutere. See Concussion.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translation: Concuss

Language Translations for "concuss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

trondit (appal, appall, overwhelm, rattle, shake, shake up, shock, stagger, stir, touch), shkund fort, dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هز (agitate, bob, convulse, jolt, rattle, ring, rock, shake, shock, stir, swing, twitter, vibrate, wag, waggle), ‏رج (bump, rattle, shake). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разтърсвам силно, раздрусвам (jolt, jounce), причинявам мозъчно сътресение. (various references)

   

Czech

  

otřást (rock, shatter, shock, thrill, unsettle). (various references)

   

French

  

commotionner, secouer violemment, ébranler (convulse). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megrendít (shaken, shook, to concuss, to shake, to shock). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menggoyangkan. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oncusscay

   

Portuguese

  

constranger (astrict, compel, constrain, force, oblige, put, urge), sacudir (abet, bob, flip, flirt, incite, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, rock, shake, shake off, stir up, swing, toss, wag, waver, whisk, yank), intimidar (appal, appall, awe, browbeat, cow, daunt, deter, frighten, funk, hector, intimidate, menace, overawe, threaten, wither), agitar violentamente, abalar (affect, convulse, depolarise, jar, jolt, move, scamper, shake, shock, stir, toss, unfix, unsettle). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

zgudui (convulse, hitch, jog, jump, shake, shake up, shock), zdruncina (convulse, jog, jolt, shake, shatter, shock, stagger, undermine, unstring, weaken), scutura (agitate, beat, dust, flick, haul dust, jog, shake), intimida (browbeat, bully, confuse, cow, daunt, face down, frighten, intimidate, shake). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сотрясать, запугивать (bluff, browbeat, bullyrag, cow, daunt, huff, intimidate, intimidating). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

producir una conmoción. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skaka (chatter, dodder, jar, jolt, jounce, judder, quake, rattle, rock, shake, shiver, toss, upset, vibrate, wobble), sammanstöta (collide). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sarsmak (affect, afflict, agitate, buffet, buffet about, convulse, cut up, depolarise, dislocate, erode, give a jerk, hit, horrify, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, reduce, rock, shake, shake up, shock, undermine, unsettle), baskı altında tutmak (coerce, press smb. close, repress, restrain). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

силувати (oblige), вражати (amaze, appal, appall, bemuse, daze, dazzle, impress, overwhelm, shine out, shock), примушувати (bring, cause, coerce, compel, constrain, enforce, force, oblige, squeeze, urge, will). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Concuss

Derivations

Words beginning with "concuss": concussed, concusses, concussing, concussion, concussions, concussive. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Concuss" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cencius, cencus, cincus, Cocozza, concasse, conclusus, concts, confuss, consus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Concuss

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-n-o-s-s-u"

-2 letters: conus, cusso, uncos.

-3 letters: cons, coss, cuss, nous, onus, sons, sous, suns, unco.

-4 letters: con, cos, nos, nus, ons, son, sos, sou, sun, uns.

-5 letters: no, nu, on, os, so, un, us.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-n-o-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: concussed, concusses, conscious.

 

+3 letters: cocounsels, concourses, concussing, concussion, concussive, conspectus, constructs, nonsuccess, occlusions, scutcheons, succession.

 

+4 letters: accusations, conceptuses, conclusions, concussions, conductress, consciouses, consciously, conspicuous, escutcheons, misconducts, successions, uncoalesces, unconscious.

 

+5 letters: acousticians, cocksureness, coinsurances, consecutions, consequences, conspectuses, constructors, coruscations, cotransduces, crosscurrent, crosscutting, deconstructs, insouciances, nonconscious, nonsuccesses, preconscious, reconstructs, sacculations, sansculottic, subconscious, subcontracts, succedaneous, successional, viscountcies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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