contuse

  • 81contus — CONTUS, USE. adject. Terme de Chirurgie. Meurtri, froissé, sans être entame. Il ne se dit qu en parlant Des chairs, des musclés. Une partie contuse. Avoir un muscle contus …

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  • 82powderiness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Having consistency of fine, dry particles Nouns 1. powderiness; grittiness, sandiness; efflorescence; friability. See vapor. 2. (powdery substance) powder, dust, sand, sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour,… …

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  • 83contuso — pl.m. contusi sing.f. contusa pl.f. contuse …

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  • 84contusion — [kən tju:ʒ(ə)n] noun Medicine a bruise. Derivatives contuse verb Origin ME: from Fr., from L. contusio(n ), from contundere, from con together + tundere to beat, thump …

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  • 85crush — v. a. 1. Compress, squeeze, bruise, contuse. 2. Break in pieces, crumble, disintegrate, comminute, bray. 3. Demolish, break down, shatter, raze. 4. Overpower, overcome, overwhelm, subdue, quell, conquer …

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  • 86bruise — I. v. a. 1. Crush, squeeze, contuse. 2. Break, batter, pound, bray, pulverize, comminute, triturate, break to pieces. 3. Indent, batter, deface. II. n. Contusion …

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  • 87graze — vb pasture, *feed, nourish graze vb *brush, glance, shave, skim Analogous words: touch, contact (see corresponding nouns at CONTACT): injure, hurt, harm: *deface, disfigure: wound, bruise, contuse (see corresponding nouns at WOUND) …

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  • 88bruise — v 1. contuse, injure, hurt, harm, do damage to, damage; discolor, blacken, mar, deface, Inf. mark up, spoil; scratch, scrape, bump, hit; cut, gash, slash, knife, wound; lacerate, mutilate, disfigure, maul, mangle, maim. 2.(all of drugs or food)… …

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  • 89crush — v 1. squash, mash, press down, compress, cramp, constrict, tighten; squeeze, pinch, bruise, contuse; crumple, rumple, wrinkle. 2. pound, grind, smash, shiver, splinter, shatter, pulverize, granulate, powder, triturate, comminute, reduce to… …

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  • 90graze — I v 1. feed, browse, crop, ruminate, forage, roam, range over. 2. pasture, turn out to pasture. II v 1. brush, brush against, glance off, shave, rub or touch lightly, sweep past; skim, sweep over, run over or through. 2. scrape, abrade, scratch,… …

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