Definition of bruise

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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..

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Debruised :: Debruised (a.) Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut..
Capellet :: Capellet (n.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down..
Tender :: Tender (superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit..
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.
Tan :: Tan (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark..
Jam :: "Jam (v. t.) To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door..
Bruise :: Bruise (v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.
Squat :: Squat (v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.
Surbate :: Surbate (v. t.) To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel..
Contrite :: Contrite (a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.
Gnide :: Gnide (v. t.) To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Kibble :: Kibble (v. t.) To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats..
Batter :: Batter (v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
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..
Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) One who, or that which, bruises..
Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) 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..
Surcease :: Surbet (a.) Surbated; bruised.
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..
Scruze :: Scruze (v. t.) To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise..
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