intuse

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noun

A bruise; a contusion.

OriginLatin intundere →
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Meanings

nounintuse (plural intuses)

plural intuses

  1. obsoleteA bruise; a contusion.

    The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe, To abate all spasm and soke the swelling bruzé; And, after having searcht the intuse deepe, She with her scarf did bind the wound.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33

Origin

  1. Latinintundere“to bruise”
  2. Englishintuse

From Latin intundere (“to bruise”), from in- (“in”) + tundere, tusum (“to beat, bruise”).

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APA

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MLA

“intuse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intuse. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intuse,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intuse.

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