contused
English
Verb
contused
- simple past tense and past participle of contuse
Adjective
contused (comparative more contused, superlative most contused)
- That has suffered contusion; that has been contused.
- 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, OCLC 1118558005, book I, page 80:
- [E]re Sun-riſe, his [Khusrau Mirza's] afflicted vvife (Cavvn Azems daughter) goes to viſit him; vvhere finding him ſpeechleſſe, and (by his contus'd face) murdered; never did poore vvretch ſhed more teares, or ſhevv more paſſion; by tearing her faire hayre, deforming her ſvveet face ſo fiercely, ſo amazedly, that her Father and all his family heare her, and ſee it to their griefe and admiration.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 21:
- Bradly could see the livid mark of scars on the close-cropped sandy skull. They were recent, and still showed contused edges[.]
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Anagrams
- uncosted