- bruise, contusion - an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
--1 is a kind of injury, hurt, harm, trauma
--1 has particulars: ecchymosis; petechia; shiner, black eye - contusion - the action of bruising; "the bruise resulted from a contusion"
--2 is a kind of hit, hitting, striking
Derived form: verb contuse1