concussion

English

Etymology

From concuss +‎ -ion From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin concussio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈkʌʃən/, /kənˈkʌʃn/

Noun

concussion (countable and uncountable, plural concussions)

1. A violent collision or shock.
   • Francis Bacon

     It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air.

2. (uncountable, Commonwealth or countable, Canada, US) An injury to part of the body, most especially the brain, caused by a violent blow, followed by loss of function.
3. (law, civil law) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.
   • Daniel

     Then concussion, rapine, pilleries, / Their catalogue of accusations fill.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “concussion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Derived terms

• concussion fuse
• concussion grenade

Related terms

• concuss
• quash

Translations

a violent collision or shock

• Bulgarian: сблъскване (bg) n (sblǎskvane)
• Finnish: isku (fi)
• French: choc (fr) m
• Georgian: შერყევა (šerq̇eva)
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• Greek: κλονισμός (el) m (klonismós)
• Polish: wstrząs (pl) m
• Russian: уши́б (ru) m (ušíb), уда́р (ru) m (udár)
• Spanish: choque (es) m

an injury to part of the body, most especially the brain

• Arabic: اِرْتِجَاج m (irtijāj)
• Bulgarian: сътресение (bg) n (sǎtresenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 震盪／震荡 (zh) (zhèndàng), 震荡 (zh) (zhèndàng)

• Finnish: aivotärähdys (fi)
• French: commotion (fr) f, commotion cérébrale (fr) f
• Georgian: შერყევა (šerq̇eva), კონტუზია (ḳonṭuzia)
• German: Gehirnerschütterung (de) f (brain), Erschütterung (de) f
• Greek: διάσειση (el) f (diáseisi)
• Hungarian: agyrázkódás (hu)
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• Italian: commozione cerebrale
• Japanese: 震盪 (ja) (しんとう, shintō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjernerystelse m (brain)

  Nynorsk: hjerneristing f (brain)

• Polish: wstrząśnienie mózgu n, wstrząs mózgu m inan
• Portuguese: concussão (pt) f
• Russian: сотрясе́ние (ru) n (sotrjasénije), (medical) коммо́ция (ru) f (kommócija)
• Spanish: conmoción cerebral f (brain), concusión (es) f

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French

Noun

concussion f (plural concussions)

1. political corruption, misappropriation

Further reading

• “concussion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.