different between pulverize vs contuse

English

Alternative forms

• pulverise (chiefly British)

Etymology

From French pulvériser

Pronunciation

Verb

pulverize (third-person singular simple present pulverizes, present participle pulverizing, simple past and past participle pulverized)

1. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of pulverise

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

pulverize

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pulverizar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of pulverizar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pulverizar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pulverizar

English

Etymology

From (the participle stem of) Latin contundere (“pound or beat small”), from com- + tundere (“beat, thump”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?tuz/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?tju?z/

Verb

contuse (third-person singular simple present contuses, present participle contusing, simple past and past participle contused)

1. (transitive) To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.
   • 1869, St Louis Medical Society, The Medical Archives, vol. III:

     How many uteruses, vaginas and perineums, suppose you, would we have to contuse and lacerate before we acquired the amount of skill and dexterity to which the gentlemen who advocate the forceps have attained?

   • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:

     His mouth had been struck or kicked. The lips were severely contused, reddened.

   • 2008, Donald Macleod, The Guardian, 2 Nov 2008:

     This would have to be followed by a calculation of 'reasonable force', knowing that any bruising, scratching or contusing would expose me to a charge of assault.

Related terms

• contusion

Translations

Anagrams

• Scouten, consute, countes, econuts

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uze

Adjective

contuse

1. feminine plural of contuso

Noun

contuse f

1. plural of contusa

Verb

contuse

1. third-person singular past historic of contundere
2. feminine plural of contuso

Latin

Participle

cont?se

1. vocative masculine singular of cont?sus