contused
Example Sentences
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“The contused areas show the swelling to be receding.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2018
That day, he’d seen an elderly man who had taken a bad spill two or three weeks earlier, resulting in a contused kidney and a compression fracture of his lower spine.
From The New Yorker • May 4, 2015
I’m all in favor of marketers evolving beyond the farting animals and contused groins of Super Bowls past.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2015
Her aunts, Faith and Doreen, are superficially brassy but contused underneath.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013
The shoulder is also badly contused and the collar-bone broken, but if brain fever does not set in the man will live.
From They of the High Trails by Garland, Hamlin
