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noun an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
noun the action of bruising
originBorrowed from Middle French contusion, from Latin contūsiōnem, accusative singular of contūsiō, from contūsus, past participle of contundō (“to beat”), from com- + tundō (“to beat”).
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