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Forbruise

Forbruise \For*bruise"\, v. t. To bruise sorely or exceedingly. [Obs.]

All forbrosed, both back and side.
--Chaucer.

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forbruise

vb. (context archaic English) To bruise badly or exceedingly.

Usage examples of "forbruise".

That it his limbes and his skin to-tare, So that he neither mighte go nor ride But in a chaire men about him bare, Alle forbruised bothe back and side.