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noun

contusion, black-and-blue mark, discoloration, abrasion, wound, swelling, blister, black eye, shiner*, ecchymosis, petechia; see also blemish, injury 1.

verb

contuse, beat, injure, wound; see damage 1, hurt 1.

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