concussions
- 1Plural of concussion.
The boxer retired after a string of concussions ended his career.
Several concussions in a single season prompted the league to revise its safety rules.
Note
A plural that counts injuries rather than force: each concussion is one blow and its aftermath, so the injury can be numbered; a second, a third. The singular also works as a mass noun (signs of concussion), and that use takes no plural. The word's two other meanings, a violent shock or collision and extortion by threats of violence, are both obsolete, so in modern English this form almost always means the injury.
concussions is a form of concussion
concussion, noun: An injury to the body (most often the brain) caused by a violent blow and followed by a loss of normal function. Full entry
- Forms
- concussionconcussions plural
- Spelling
- concussion → concussions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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