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Tender :: Tender (superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit..

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

Maul :: Maul (v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

Batter :: Batter (v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

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

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

Contuse :: Contuse (v. t.) To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.

Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) One who, or that which, bruises..

Sore :: Sore (a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil..

Jam :: "Jam (v. t.) To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door..

Scruze :: Scruze (v. t.) To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise..

Mall :: Mall (v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

Mangle :: Mangle (v. t.) To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate..

Badiaga :: Badiaga (n.) A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises..

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..

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

Hurt :: Hurt (v. t.) To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.

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

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

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