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noun

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."

verb

Bruise v. t. (past & past part. bruised; pres. part. bruising)

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 break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. "Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs."

Synonyms: To pulverize; bray; triturate; pound; contuse.

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

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Etymology of 'Bruise'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bruise" Quotes from Famous Books

... we found that big muscle bruise on your side, and she told us that you had been tossed by a bull a couple of days ago, we didn't ...

— Anything Once • Douglas Grant

... As I was riding to Rose Green, near Bristol, my horse suddenly pitched on his head, and rolled over and over. I received no other hurt than a little bruise on my side; which for the present I felt not, but preached without ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various

... have been ten or eleven feet high, and as broad as a boy of that height ought to be. His suit had fortunately grown too, and now he stood up in it—with one of his enormous stockings turned down to show the gigantic bruise on his vast leg. Immense tears of fury still stood on his flushed giant face. He looked so surprised, and he was so large to be wearing a turned down collar outside of his jacket that the ...

— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit

... below, ragged points of rocks jutted out from the chasm wall, seeming to beckon to him. They would bruise and tear him, and it seemed that they were awaiting, with impatience, for ...

— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish

... I am sorry for it; but pull up that large dock leaf you see near it; now bruise the juice out of it on the part which is stung. ...

— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

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