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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bruise
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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
purple
▪ Seven or eight months pregnant with bruised arms and a purple bruise round her eyes.
▪ I stroke her lifeless cheek, and as I do the deep purple bruises seem to fade a little.
▪ His hair was sticky with blood and a purple bruise was spreading across his temple.
▪ His face was a mass of purple bruises, his lips swollen and split and his eyes lost behind puffy tissue.
■ VERB
cover
▪ Quickly she covered the bruise with her collar.
▪ Lucy never wore slacks or make-up, except when he permitted it in order to cover a bruise.
▪ Willie's arms and legs were covered in bruises, weals and sores.
▪ The jury was told that the baby was covered with forty bruises, nineteen of them on her head.
▪ It covers bruises, grazes, black eyes and burns.
▪ Visitors report seeing Mr Nugroho covered in bruises and unable to speak.
▪ She adjusted the scarf to cover the bruises forming on her neck.
get
▪ Chrissie's got scratches and bruises.
▪ He got the bruise on his nose then, from hitting a wall.
▪ He got bruises and sores all over him.
▪ That's how she got that bruise.
see
▪ Doyle could see bruises on the man's neck.
suffer
▪ He suffered bruises and faces charges.
▪ He had suffered cuts and bruises.
▪ The total number of civilian casualties was seventy-seven, most of whom had suffered bruises or lacerations to the head.
▪ On 11 May 1991 he was taken to hospital suffering from 18 bruises and a bite mark.
▪ It was said that Mrs Fribbins had suffered a bruise to her eye after being hit during a bed changing incident.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ How did you get that bruise on your shoulder?
▪ I banged into the shelf so hard that I got an ugly purple bruise on my hip.
▪ Jack often comes home from rugby covered in cuts and bruises.
▪ Jenny looked as though she'd been crying, and there was a nasty bruise on her cheek.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her head throbbed in rhythm with her bruises, yet she'd hardly noticed any of it downstairs.
▪ I stroke her lifeless cheek, and as I do the deep purple bruises seem to fade a little.
▪ I was intoxicated with the information he had provided me, and my bruises were forgotten.
▪ Joachim cleaned my face, wiping dirt from the bruises whilst I greedily gulped the thick red claret.
▪ She nursed a bone bruise in her ankle most of the season, a painful injury that limited her impact.
▪ She pinched bruises on her daughter's inner arm, and had poured hot tea on both daughters.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
badly
▪ There was a little blood around his mouth and his eyes were badly bruised.
▪ Taylor was left badly bruised down his right side-from leg to shoulder-but escaped without permanent injuries.
▪ Trapped in an eddy Graham was retrieved from the barrel badly bruised, just before he almost died of suffocation.
▪ He's badly bruised and has difficulty moving because of the stab wound to his back.
▪ At last, badly bruised and scratched, they were forced to haul themselves back up to their island prison.
▪ Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment.
▪ His nose had bled and his forehead and face were badly bruised from his fall; but he was not seriously hurt.
■ NOUN
face
▪ The father had punched Michael, then three, and caused bruising to his face.
▪ She phoned me in my room to say she had slipped in the bath and badly bruised her face.
■ VERB
cut
▪ Three women hit by the runaway car were cut and bruised - and one suffered a broken leg.
▪ She was sitting on the top deck and was cut and bruised by branches.
suffer
▪ The woman suffered bruising to the head and body in the impact and went on sick leave from work.
▪ Their leading scorer, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, suffered a bruised right quadriceps against Seattle on Wednesday and missed the game.
▪ His wife, Olivia, 51, suffered bruising to her head and face.
▪ Zeier took over in the second quarter after starter Vinny Testaverde suffered bruised ribs while being sacked.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Keller badly bruised a hip, and came off early in the second half of the match.
▪ Mom fell on the ice and bruised the side of her leg.
▪ My skin bruises quite easily.
▪ Not getting the promotion really bruised his ego.
▪ Payton bruised his hip ten minutes into the game.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But her whole body, strained and bruised as if he had beaten her, that was the monument to his reality.
▪ He bruised his right shoulder the week before in the win over the Rams.
▪ He had pulled her down, so that she fell heavily on the asphalt, bruising and grazing her legs.
▪ He was standing just inside the doorway, supporting Piper O'Rourke, who was looking old, tired and bruised.
▪ Safety Tim McDonald had bruised a left shoulder in the Rams game, which flared up again Sunday.
▪ Strong safety Tim McDonald bruised his left shoulder, an injury he brought into the game and exacerbated.
▪ The models reeling down the catwalks are stick thin, their faces cavernous and bruised, their hair matted.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bruise

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.]

  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.
    --Shak.

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

Bruise

Bruise \Bruise\, v. i. To fight with the fists; to box.

Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.
--Thackeray.

Bruise

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.
--Isa. i. 6.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bruise

Old English brysan "to crush, bruise, pound," from Proto-Germanic *brusjan, from PIE root *bhreu- "to smash, cut, break up" (cognates: Old Irish bronnaim "I wrong, I hurt;" Breton brezel "war," Vulgar Latin brisare "to break"). Merged by 17c. with Anglo-French bruiser "to break, smash," from Old French bruisier "to break, shatter," perhaps from Gaulish *brus-, from the same PIE root. Related: Bruised; bruising.\n

bruise

1540s, from bruise (v.).

Wiktionary
bruise

n. 1 (context medicine English) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillary under the surface that have been damaged by a blow. 2 A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it. 2 (context transitive English) To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way. 3 (context intransitive English) Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly. 4 (context intransitive English) To become bruised. 5 (context intransitive English) To fight with the fists; to box.

WordNet
bruise

n. an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration [syn: contusion]

bruise
  1. v. injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of; "I bruised my knee" [syn: contuse]

  2. hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego" [syn: hurt, wound, injure, offend, spite]

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

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

Wikipedia
Bruise (album)

Bruise is the seventh album by the American electronic act Assemblage 23. It was released on June 12, 2012 on Metropolis Records and Accession Records.

Bruise (disambiguation)

A bruise is a type of hematoma caused by trauma.

Bruise or Bruises may also refer to:

  • Bruise (album), by Assemblage 23, released 2012
  • "Bruises" (Chairlift song), released 2008
  • "Bruises" (Train song), released 2012
Bruise

A bruise, or contusion, is a type of hematoma of tissue in which capillaries and sometimes venules are damaged by trauma, allowing blood to seep, hemorrhage, or extravasate into the surrounding interstitial tissues. Bruises, which do not blanch under pressure, can involve capillaries at the level of skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, or bone. Bruises are not to be confused with other similar-looking lesions primarily distinguished by their diameter or causation. These lesions include petechia (< 3 mm result from numerous and diverse etiologies such as adverse reactions from medications such as warfarin, straining, asphyxiation, platelet disorders and diseases such as cytomegalovirus), purpura (3 mm to 1 cm, classified as palpable purpura or non-palpable purpura and indicates various pathologic conditions such as thrombocytopenia), and ecchymosis (>1 cm caused blood dissecting through tissue planes and settled in an area remote from the site of trauma or pathology such as periorbital ecchymosis, i.e.,"raccoon eyes" , arising from a basilar skull fracture or from a neuroblastoma).

As a type of hematoma, a bruise is always caused by internal bleeding into the interstitial tissues which does not break through the skin, usually initiated by blunt trauma, which causes damage through physical compression and deceleration forces. Trauma sufficient to cause bruising can occur from a wide variety of situations including accidents, falls, and surgeries. Disease states such as insufficient or malfunctioning platelets, other coagulation deficiencies, or vascular disorders, such as venous blockage associated with severe allergies can lead to the formation of purpura which is not to be confused with trauma-related bruising/contusion. If the trauma is sufficient to break the skin and allow blood to escape the interstitial tissues, the injury is not a bruise but instead a different variety of hemorrhage called bleeding. However, such injuries may be accompanied by bruising elsewhere.

Bruises often induce pain, but small bruises are not normally dangerous alone. Sometimes bruises can be serious, leading to other more life-threatening forms of hematoma, such as when associated with serious injuries, including fractures and more severe internal bleeding. The likelihood and severity of bruising depends on many factors, including type and healthiness of affected tissues. Minor bruises may be easily recognized in people with light skin color by characteristic blue or purple appearance (idiomatically described as "black and blue") in the days following the injury.

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.