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CONTUSION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The action of bruising

Example:

the bruise resulted from a contusion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("contusion" is a kind of...):

hit; hitting; striking (the act of contacting one thing with another)

Derivation:

contuse (injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration

Synonyms:

bruise; contusion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("contusion" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contusion"):

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))

black eye; mouse; shiner (a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye)

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