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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Lave :: Lave (v. t.) To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise..
Squat :: Squat (v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.
Maul :: Maul (v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
Contrite :: Contrite (a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.
Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes..
Breach :: Breach (n.) A bruise; a 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..
Bruise :: Bruise (v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.
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..
Surbate :: Surbate (v. t.) To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel..
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..
Surcease :: Surbet (a.) Surbated; bruised.
Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
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..
Bruisewort :: Bruisewort (n.) A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey..
Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush..
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..
Hurter :: Hurter (n.) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like..
Hurt :: Hurt (v. t.) To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.
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