16 Verbs to Use for the Word concussions

He almost fancied that he felt the concussion of the air. Another, and another; and then, in the village below, he could see lights hurrying to and fro.

The doctor said he must have struck his head against a stone when first he dived into the river, and this had produced concussion of the brain.

The chief function of the lateral cartilages, therefore, is to receive the concussion engendered by locomotion, which concussion is directed backwards and outwards by the pad-like plantar cushion.

Virginia, which began by volunteering as peacemaker in our civil troubles, seems likely to end by being their battleground; as Mr. Pickwick, interfering between the belligerent rival editors, only brought upon his own head the united concussion of their carpet-bags.

Projecting below the level of the lower surface of the shoe, it imparts the concussion it thus obtains directly to the sole.

To them it was that Julian and other pagans did impute all the concussions, confusions, and devastations falling upon the Roman Empire.

It must be said for her that she did not go out of her way to inflict these concussions upon the brains of spectators, since she always had in her closet one evening dress and one street dress, sufficiently approximating the prevailing style to pass unnoticed.

Vertigo is induced by whatever is capable of disturbing suddenly the circulation of the brain, whether in the way of increase or diminution: thus the approach of syncope, whether produced by loss of blood, or a feeling of nausea; blows on the head, occasioning a concussion of the brain; stooping; swinging; whirling; or other unusual motions of the body, as in sailing, are the ordinary exciting causes of the disease.

Circumstances and the connection of events were such, that this unavoidable emancipation had to pass the violent concussion of severe trials.

Before the Master could reply, a shuddering concussion shivered through the solid gold all about them.

Nearer at hand was the broad stretch of railway, and half-invisible trains shunteda steady puffing and rumbling, with every run a ringing concussion and a rhymthic series of impacts, and a passage of intermittent puffs of white steam across the further view.

Such, my lords, is the present prospect which offers itself to him who surveys Europe with a political view, and examines the present interest and dispositions of neighbouring potentates; such is the order which has been produced from general confusion, and such the reestablishment of equal power, which has succeeded these concussions of the world.

Unfortunately I was wearing one of they steel helmets at the time, with the result that I sustained a serious scalp-wound, also very bad concussion.

If anyone knows how to handle high explosives without causing a premature concussion it should be the Minister of Munitions.

The trembling of the windows had begun again, and then had come a thuda vast concussion that shook the house.

Thus the talk ran on in the quiet of evening, till we heard a concussion and a quarter of a mile away, behind a screen of trees, a pillar of smoke rose to the height of two or three hundred feet.

16 Verbs to Use for the Word  concussions