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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bruising
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 severe bruising, lacerations, and a dislocated elbow, plus shock and the loss of blood.
▪ The man, who has not been named, was taken to hospital with a fractured cheek and ribs and severe bruising.
▪ Donna Preston was admitted to hospital with severe bruising as a result of Lee Taylor's attack, the Warrington court heard.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The woman suffered bruising to the face and head in the accident.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A consultant paediatrician said the bruising would have caused a degree of distress when inflicted but it would have been temporary.
▪ Fortunately, we're more alive to the dangers inherent in the bruising of delicate psyches.
▪ I'd expect to find deep-seated internal bruising, but it's possible to get this without many superficial signs.
▪ Less severe bruising on the arm should be covered only by a crêpe bandage.
▪ Norman Reeve, 24, received multiple bruising and Peter Clark, 25, suffered leg injuries.
▪ She doesn't think, for example, that the bruising is compatible with his having had a fall.
▪ The woman suffered shock and slight bruising.
▪ When he tried to make an arrest he was attacked and suffered cuts to an eyebrow and hand, and some bruising.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For farmers this was a bruising experience.
▪ He got a bruising whack in his right eye - the one he uses to peer through his telescope at the stars.
▪ I fear for the world and for that misguided man who crossed my path in such a bruising way yesterday and Friday.
▪ It's been a tough and bruising campaign, with the backgrounds of both candidates coming under intense scrutiny.
▪ Leaders emerge from a bruising contest.
▪ Props who can play on either head can be doubly useful on a bruising tour.
▪ She hit the edge of the table with bruising force, her upper body sprawling over its surface.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bruising

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.

Wiktionary
bruising

n. (context slang English) A violent physical attack on a person. vb. (present participle of bruise English)

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WordNet
bruising

  1. adj. causing mental or emotional injury; "a bruising experience"; "protected from the bruising facts of battle"- John Mason Brown

  2. brutally forceful and compelling; "protected from the bruising facts of battle"

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.