to bruise
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2.6
- verb
- /bruːz/
:
magullar
- My flesh is bruised, but my bones are intact.
- bruise the body
My leg is fucking bruised like a giant fucking bruise.
- My leg is fucking bruised like a giant fucking bruise.
- And what she saw was how bruised I was.
- Because if you're good at hand jabbing, you're not supposed to bruise your hands.
- And in those fights, he still left those fights bruised up.
- My mom woke up and she pulled the covers back and when she saw was how bruised I was.
- So if you take hypercortisolism, people can get diabetes, their skin gets very fragile and they can bruise really easily.
- Their mouths had a curious blackish look, as if they'd been bruised, and around their lips flies swarmed and gathered in clusters like bunches of dried currents.
- Well, they both have CTE, so we know that they're both bruised and Gray matters a little dicey on them.
Examples
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I'm a little bruised up, but I'm good.
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Lucky for me, I don't bruise easily.
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"Well, no bones broken, but you certainly did bruise it!" the "doctor" said after a moment.
Fiction book (1992) -
Kissed me hard enough to bruise my lips and force them apart.
Fiction book (1991) -
But seeing my bruised face told me just how real all of this was.
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And he came here injured and bruised.
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He's badly bruised, but he seems to have escaped serious injury.
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Every muscle in my body aches; my feet are bruised and blistered.
Fiction book (1991) -
She accidentally bruised her arm when she bumped into the door frame.
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After the accident, he bruised his leg and needed to rest for a few days.
Synonyms
640
1.0
Harm someone's body or a part of it, often by accident
76
1.0
Feeling physical pain after an accident or attack
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9.5
To hurt soft parts under the skin or a bone without opening the skin, causing a bruise
Antonyms
How Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb bruise comes from the same old English root brusan, meaning 'to crush', so to bruise yourself is to press or hit soft tissue without breaking the skin, which makes the dark, painful spot.