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bruise
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Word definitions for bruise in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration [syn: contusion ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES bruised ego (= when you feel less confident than before ) ▪ I need someone to massage my bruised ego . cuts and bruises (= cuts and dark marks on the skin ) ▪ He escaped the crash with just a few cuts and bruises. ...
Usage examples of bruise.
Where his face was not bruised or abraded, his usually milk-pale skin was gray.
A bruise may be distinguished from a post-mortem stain by the cuticle in the former often being abraded and raised.
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.
She showed me a large bruise on her left thigh and healing abrasions on her left knee.
Initially, she appeared to have some bruising beneath one eye and faint scratches and abrasions on one knee.
On October 9, 2000, Liysa arrived at a hospital emergency room with a bruised eye and abrasions on her knee.
Spasming, Acies moaned in pain as broken bones knit themselves together and bruises faded.
The cuts and bruises I had received from the jagged sides of the rock shaft were paining me woefully, their soreness enhanced to a stinging or burning acuteness by some pungent quality in the faint draft, and the mere act of rolling over was enough to set my whole frame throbbing with untold agony.
Lord Ado looked shriveled, a large bruise on the side of his face, his neck raw and abraded.
Sweat ran down her cheeks, and a few bruises from her capture marred her ageless features.
The day was marked by a dribble of bruised and battered agitators into the hospitals.
The bunches of agrimony hanging head downward inside the warm dark cave were an infusion of the dried flowers and leaves useful for bruises and injuries to internal organs, as much as they were tall slender perennials with toothed leaves and tiny yellow flowers growing on tapering spikes.
It consisted of a selection of original aphorisms by an anonymous gentleman, who in this bashful manner gave a bruised heart to the world.
Chekhov is the autobiographical foundation of the ten Nick Adams stories, which treat the bruising passage from childhood into adolescence and adulthood.
As babies begin to inch on their bellies, crawl, pull up, stand up, take their first steps, climb stairs, and venture out, they also begin to get bumps and bruises, to totter and fall, to scrape and cut themselves.