Definition of "contused" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of contuse. (verb)

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• "Giovanni Vigo (c. 1460-1520), surgeon-in-ordinary to Pope Julius II, gunshot wounds were classified as contused, burned, and poisoned, and the last-named, on the supposition that all gunshot wounds were poisoned by powder, were cauterized with red-hot iron or hot oil."
• "His lips were a contused, shapeless mass, and his mouth was full of blood and broken teeth."
• "When the police lifted the towel, the man's face was so badly contused that the police became sick to their stomachs."