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Bemaul :: Bemaul (v. t.) To maul or beat severely; to bruise.

Lave :: Lave (v. t.) To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise..

Suicidal :: Suggillation (n.) A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise..

Tread :: Tread (n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3..

Nubble :: Nubble (v. t.) To beat or bruise with the fist.

Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation..

Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush..

Contusion :: Contusion (n.) The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised..

Surbate :: Surbate (v. t.) To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel..

Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.

Mash :: Mash (n.) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort..

Bruise :: Bruise (v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.

Mash :: Mash (v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort..

Breach :: Breach (n.) A bruise; a wound.

Soapwort :: Soapwort (n.) A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet..

Bruised :: Bruised (imp. & p. p.) of Bruis.

Intuse :: Intuse (n.) A bruise; a contusion.

Contusion :: Contusion (n.) A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound..

Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt..

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