| VERB | contact | contuse, bruise | injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of |
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| Meaning | injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | Did he contuse his foot? | |
| Synonym | bruise | |
| Narrower | jam, crush | crush or bruise |
| Broader | injure, wound | Cause injuries or bodily harm to |
| Spanish | golpearse, lastimarse, machucarse, magullarse | |
| Catalan | colpejar-se, fer-se mal, fer-se un blau, maçolar-se | |
| Nouns | contusion | the action of bruising |
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