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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bruise \Bruise\ (br[udd]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bruised ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bruising .] [OE. brusen, brisen, brosen, bresen, AS. br?san or fr. OF. bruiser, bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochis[=o]n. Cf. Break , v. t.] To injure, as ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context slang English) A violent physical attack on a person. vb. (present participle of bruise English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. causing mental or emotional injury; "a bruising experience"; "protected from the bruising facts of battle"- John Mason Brown brutally forceful and compelling; "protected from the bruising facts of battle"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE severe ▪ Less severe bruising on the arm should be covered only by a crêpe bandage. ▪ Fortunately Diana was not seriously hurt by the fall although she did suffer severe bruising around her stomach. ▪ He suffered ...
Usage examples of bruising.
He might abuse her in some other way, such as by inserting his fingers or an object to demonstrate his control and contempt, and in fact, we soon learned of the vaginal abrasions and bruising.
Initially, she appeared to have some bruising beneath one eye and faint scratches and abrasions on one knee.
Chekhov is the autobiographical foundation of the ten Nick Adams stories, which treat the bruising passage from childhood into adolescence and adulthood.
Big Bob hammered and beat and bashed, swearing huge and terrible oaths, pulling out tufts of synthetic hair and bruising synthetic skin.
Bruising and chafing in a band approximately four inches wide just below the sternum.
On the inner thighs bruising and chafing, contusions having oozed blood.
His parties, after several bruising encounters with cudgels and cosh had gathered some volunteers, but nowhere near enough for him to both sail and fight his ship.
As I expected, we found that the flesh underneath was terribly contused, for though the steel links had kept the weapons from entering, they had not prevented them from bruising.
At that distance, of course, the loopers sank through the soft hide of the shields and deep into the bodies of those who carried them, so that both of them dropped dead, the left-hand man being so close that he fell against my pony, his uplifted kerry striking me upon the thigh and bruising me.
The itching stopped, and Anna agreed to wait until the bruising went away to decide whether a lumpectomy was necessary.
There was a slight jar when her shield screen banged into that of the semi-inert Lontastan, and a bruising jar when her impetus slammed both of them down on the rocky moonlet, with Marvis on the bottom.
The furniture tumbled over and over and piled upon Farr and Penche, bruising, wrenching, scraping.
Just the internal bruising, and the minute petechial hemorrhages in their eyes that the physicians missed in each case.
CHAPTER XVI ANOTHER CHANGE OF NAME Turan dashed himself against the door of his prison in a vain effort to break through the solid skeel to the side of Tara whom he knew to be in grave danger, but the heavy panels held and he succeeded only in bruising his shoulders and his arms.
Apart from slight bruising and two small indentations, there was little trace of where a twelve millimetre steel-capped bullet had punctured her skin and torn through her insides and exited at the back.