Home › Words › I › intuseintuseintuse · noun — A bruise; a contusion.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom Latin intundere (“to bruise”), from in- (“in”) + tundere, tusum (“to beat, bruise”).nounA bruise; a contusion.e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).