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intuses

intuses is the plural of intuse.

Meaning of intuse

Noun

intuse (plural intuses)

  1. (obsolete) A 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

Questions about intuses

What is intuses the plural of?
Intuses is the plural of intuse.

Words near intuses in the dictionary

  1. inturned
  2. inturning
  3. inturns
  4. Intusan
  5. intuse
  6. intuses
  7. intussuscept
  8. intussuscepted
  9. intussuscepting
  10. intussusception
  11. intussusceptions

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