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Contuse

Definition: Contuse

Contuse

Verb

1. 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: Contuse

Synonym: bruise (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Contuse

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Contuse

English words defined with "contuse": Contusing. (references)

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Modern Translation: Contuse

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Contuse

Derivations

Words beginning with "contuse": contused, contuses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Contuse

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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