concuss
verb/kənˈkʌs/
/kənˈkʌs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they concuss | /kənˈkʌs/ /kənˈkʌs/ |
| he / she / it concusses | /kənˈkʌsɪz/ /kənˈkʌsɪz/ |
| past simple concussed | /kənˈkʌst/ /kənˈkʌst/ |
| past participle concussed | /kənˈkʌst/ /kənˈkʌst/ |
| -ing form concussing | /kənˈkʌsɪŋ/ /kənˈkʌsɪŋ/ |
- concuss somebody to hit somebody on the head, making them become unconscious or confused for a short timeTopics Health problemsc2Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘shake violently’): from Latin concuss- ‘dashed together, violently shaken’, from the verb concutere, from con- ‘together’ + quatere ‘shake’.
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