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Definition: Contuse |
ContuseVerb1. Injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of; "I bruised my knee". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Contuse \Con*tuse"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Contused; present participle verb or noun Contusing.]. (references) |
Synonym: ContuseSynonym: bruise (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attenuate . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Contuse |
| English words defined with "contuse": Contusing. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "contuse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shemb (collapse, demolish, pull down, tear down), dërrmoj (crush, drub, grind, hammer, mangle, overcome, plough under, smash, whelm, wipe the floor with). (various references) | |
Arabic | كدم (bruise, bung, contusion, tarmac). (various references) | |
Chinese | "伤 (Contused, Contusing). (various references) | |
Czech | pohmoždit (bruise). (various references) | |
French | contusionner. (various references) | |
German | quetschen (bruise, crimp, crush, jam, mash, pinch, press, squash, squeeze, squish, to contuse, to queeze, to squish). (various references) | |
Greek | μωλωπίζω (bruise), ζουλώ (crush, squash, squeeze). (various references) | |
Hungarian | összezúz (crash, mash, shatter, to bray, to bruise, to contuse, to crash, to crush up, to mash, to shatter, to smash). (various references) | |
Italian | contundere, ammaccare (bruise, Dent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ontusecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | contundir (bruise), pisar (bruise, chunk, crush, meal, override, pound, ram, step, step on, tamp, trample, trample on, tread), machucar (bruise, hurt). (various references) | |
Romanian | contuziona (bruise), rade (efface, erase, grate, obliterate, pare, rasp, raze, scrape, shave), pisa (bother, Bray, grind, pestle, pound, pulp), freca (chafe, fret, grate, grease, rub, rub on, rub over, scrub, slate). (various references) | |
Russian | контузить. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kontuzovati. (various references) | |
Spanish | contundir (bruise). (various references) | |
Swedish | ge blåmärken. (various references) | |
Turkish | zedelemek (bruise, injure, outrage), berelemek (bruise, Dent), çürütmek (canker, cause to rot, confute, controvert, corrode, corrupt, decay, decompose, disproof, disprove, explode, molder, moulder, pick to pieces, putrefy, rebut, refute, rot, stultify). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розтирати (chafe, knead, pulverize, rub), контузити. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "contuse": contused, contuses. (additional references) | |
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"Contuse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cantasi, canutes, ceonothus, cointise, contesa, contis, contu, Contucci, contume, conture, conuse, Costessey, cotus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: centos, contes, counts, ounces. | |
-2 letters: cento, cents, centu, cones, conte, conus, coset, cotes, count, cutes, escot, notes, onces, onset, ounce, scent, scone, scout, scute, seton, snout, steno, stone, tones, tonus, touse, tunes, uncos, unset. | |
-3 letters: cent, cone, cons, cost, cote, cots, cues, cute, cuts, ecus, eons, nest, nets, noes, nose, note, nous, nuts. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: confutes, conquest, construe, contused, contuses, counters, countess, counties, noctules, recounts, trounces. | |
+2 letters: bounciest, ceanothus, conceptus, confuters, conquests, construed, construes, consulate, consulted, consulter, continues, cotqueans, countless, countries, courantes, courtesan, cretinous, curbstone, cutaneous, documents, duecentos, eductions, jounciest, nectarous, neurotics, nocturnes, oceanauts, outdances, outrances, scutcheon, seduction, suctioned, tenacious, trouncers, unclothes. | |
+3 letters: centurions, coetaneous, comminutes, confitures, confluents, conjugates, consequent, conspectus, constitute, consuetude, consulates, consulters, consultive, consummate, continuers, convolutes, counterspy, countersue, countesses, courantoes, courtesans, curbstones, deductions, discounted, discounter, educations, elocutions, encounters, escutcheon, executions, flounciest, gluconates, headcounts, incestuous, infectious, inoculates, inosculate, introduces, licentious, miscounted, nonsubject, nucleators, occurrents, outpunches, outscorned, overcounts, pleustonic, raconteurs, reconquest, recontours, recounters, rediscount, reductions, scutcheons, seductions, subjection, subpotency, subsection, supertonic, surjection, touchiness, touchlines, touchstone, truncheons, uncorseted, undercoats, undomestic, unescorted. | |
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