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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Suicidal :: Suggillation (n.) A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise..
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..
Hurt :: Hurt (v. t.) To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
Jam :: "Jam (v. t.) To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door..
Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) A boxer; a pugilist.
Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush..
Tread :: Tread (n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3..
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..
Hurter :: Hurter (n.) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like..
Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
Kibble :: Kibble (v. t.) To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats..
Contuse :: Contuse (v. t.) To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.
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.
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..
Amber Tree :: Amber tree () A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor..
Samp :: Samp (n.) An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy..
Surbate :: Surbate (v. t.) To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel..
Gnide :: Gnide (v. t.) To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Bruise :: Bruise (v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.
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..
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