| NOUN | state | contusion, bruise | an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration |
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| act | contusion | the action of bruising |
| Sounds | kahntuw'zhahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2525 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration. | |
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| Synonym | bruise | |
| Narrower | ecchymosis | The purple or black-and-blue area resulting from a bruise |
| petechia | A minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever) | |
| shiner, black eye, mouse | A swollen bruise caused by a blow / blow to the eye | |
| Broader | injury, hurt, harm, trauma | Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. |
| Catalan | blau, cop | |
| Spanish | cardenal, golpe, moratón | |
| Meaning | The action of bruising. | |
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| Example | "the bruise resulted from a contusion" | |
| Broader | hit, hitting, striking | The act of contacting one thing with another |
| Verbs | contuse | injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of |