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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Contrite :: Contrite (a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.
Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart..
Nubble :: Nubble (v. t.) To beat or bruise with the fist.
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..
Forbruise :: Forbruise (v. t.) To bruise sorely or exceedingly.
Triturate :: Triturate (v. t.) To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash..
Surbate :: Surbate (v. t.) To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel..
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..
Hurter :: Hurter (n.) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like..
Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) One who, or that which, bruises..
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.
Squat :: Squat (v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.
Surcease :: Surbet (a.) Surbated; bruised.
Amber Tree :: Amber tree () A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor..
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..
Breach :: Breach (n.) A bruise; a wound.
Gnide :: Gnide (v. t.) To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Batter :: Batter (v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
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