transitive verb. To injure without breaking the skin; bruise.

1. To beat; bruise; pound; pulverize by beating.

To injure the flesh of, by impact of a blunt surface, with or without a breach of the integument; bruise by violent contact or pressure. If the injury is accompanied by a breaking of the skin, it is called a contused wound; if not, a contusion.

transitive verb. To beat, pound, or bray together.

transitive verb. To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.

transitive verb. a wound attended with bruising.

verb. To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.

verb. injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of

"Those weapons which graze the bone obliquely are less apt to fracture, contuse, or depress the bone, even when the bone is denuded of flesh; for in some of those wounds thus inflicted the bone is not laid bare of the flesh."

injure  wound  

crush  jam  

bruise  

contused  contuses  contusing