to concuss
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9.1
- verb
- /kənˈkəs/
:
sacudir
- If Smith starts for my team on Sunday against the Saints, I'm going to jail because after his first offensive play, I'm jumping out of the stands with a tube sock full of quarters and concussing him again!
Examples
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l must be concussed or something.
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Not to mention "succussed" and "concussed."
Blog text (22) -
And I thought you actually knew you were going to concuss me and to see how I was going to react.
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"For George!" they shouted, and their admiral, a bit concussed by the bullet, wondered if that final cheer was for his cat.
Fiction book (1995) -
Oh wait, yeah, they did. The one I remember was a 15-yard offsetting penalty for concussing our starting QB a full 3.
Blog text (26) -
His judicious responses are in sharp contrast to a concussed Nucky's wild ramblings.
Blog text (25) -
They can say that it was the QB sneak that did the damage, but when concussed, many times there is a delay, and he was definitely hit helmet to helmet on the first hit.
Blog text (17) -
This clarity proves fleeting, as he's immediately concussed by a runaway copy of The Silmarillion.
Blog text (2) -
"We've had no concussed goalies," a statistic that is surely welcomed by the goaltending elite that wear Malerba's masks.
Blog text (20) -
After the car accident, he was concussed and taken to the hospital for evaluation.
Synonyms
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7.8
Shake hard and without control because of illness, a strong feeling, or a hit
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7.4
To surprise someone very much so they cannot react
Antonyms
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
concuss = cuss (opaque) = con + cuss
The prefix 'con-' suggests a sense of 'together' or 'completely', but the root 'cuss' is not a standalone English word, making the overall meaning less transparent.
Etymology
Concuss comes from the Latin verb concutere, where con- means 'together' and the rest means 'to shake', like the everyday word quake. So to concuss something is to 'shake' it violently, which fits explosions or crashes that send dust and windows flying.