bruise

[bruise]

If you're just learning to skateboard, you’ve probably got an ugly bruise or two to show for it those purple and yellow patches you get on your skin where you’ve bumped and scraped. They probably hurt, too!

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To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.

Noun
an injury that doesn''t break the skin but results in some discoloration

Verb
damage (plant tissue) by abrasion of pressure; "The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them"

Verb
break up into small pieces for food preparation; "bruise the berries with a wooden spoon and strain them"

Verb
injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of; "I bruised my knee"

Verb
hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"

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v. t.
To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.

v. t.
To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.

v. i.
To fight with the fists; to box.

n.
An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.


Bruise

Bruise , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bruised ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bruising.] [OE. brusen, brisen, brosen, bresen, AS. brsan or fr. OF. bruiser, bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochis'd3n. Cf. Break, v. t.] 1. To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall. 2. To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs.
Syn. -- To pulverize; bray; triturate; pound; contuse.

Bruise

Bruise, v. i. To fight with the fists; to box.
Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.

Bruise

Bruise, n. An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises.

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.

To fight with the fists; to box.

An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.

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Usage Examples

The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.

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Other Usage Examples

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

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