Bray vs Contuse - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between bray and contuse

is that bray is to make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound while contuse is to injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.

As verbs the difference between bray and contuse

is that bray is of a donkey, to make its cry while contuse is to injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.

As a noun bray

is the cry of an ass or donkey.

As a proper noun Bray

is {{surname|lang=en}.

bray

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) braire, from ).

Verb

(en verb)

Of a donkey, to make its cry.

Whenever I walked by, that donkey brayed at me.

Of a camel, to make its cry.

To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.

He threw back his head and brayed with laughter.

To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.

* Milton

Arms on armour clashing, brayed / Horrible discord.

* Sir Walter Scott

And varying notes the war pipes brayed .

* Gray

Heard ye the din of battle bray ?

Noun

(en noun)

The cry of an ass or donkey.

The cry of a camel

Any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.

* Jerrold

The bray and roar of multitudinous London.

Synonyms

* hee-haw

Etymology 2

From (etyl) breier (Modern French broyer).

Verb

(en verb)

To crush or pound, especially with a mortar.

* Bible, Proverbs xxvii. 22

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 141:

Their heads and shoulders are painted red with the roote Pocone brayed to powder, mixed with oyle [...].

(British, chiefly Yorkshire) By extension, to hit someone or something.

* 2011 , , Butchers Perfume'' from ''The Beautiful Indifference , Faber and Faber (2011), page 25:

If anything he brayed him all the harder - the old family bull recognising his fighting days were close to over.

contuse

English

Verb

(en-verb)

To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.

* 1869 , St Louis Medical Society, The Medical Archives , vol. III:

How many uteruses, vaginas and perineums, suppose you, would we have to contuse and lacerate before we acquired the amount of skill and dexterity to which the gentlemen who advocate the forceps have attained?

* 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :

His mouth had been struck or kicked. The lips were severely contused , reddened.

* 2008 , Donald Macleod, The Guardian , 2 Nov 2008:

This would have to be followed by a calculation of 'reasonable force', knowing that any bruising, scratching or contusing would expose me to a charge of assault.