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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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.
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..
Bruised :: Bruised (imp. & p. p.) of Bruis.
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..
Hurt :: Hurt (v. t.) To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
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..
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..
Maul :: Maul (v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
Contuse :: Contuse (v. t.) To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.
Bemaul :: Bemaul (v. t.) To maul or beat severely; to bruise.
Squat :: Squat (v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.
Surcease :: Surbet (a.) Surbated; bruised.
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..
Gnide :: Gnide (v. t.) To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Triturate :: Triturate (v. t.) To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash..
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..
Bruise :: Bruise (v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.
Trash :: Trash (n.) Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like..
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..
Hurter :: Hurter (n.) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like..
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