Associations to the word «Contuse»

Wiktionary

CONTUSE, verb. (transitive) To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.

Dictionary definition

CONTUSE, verb. Injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of; "I bruised my knee".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne