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bruise

[brooz] verb, bruised, bruis⋅ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to injure by striking or pressing, without breaking the skin: The blow bruised his arm. Her pinching bruised the peaches.
2. to injure or hurt slightly, as with an insult or unkind remark: to bruise a person's feelings.
3. to crush (drugs or food) by beating or pounding.
4. Metalworking. to injure the surface of (an ingot or finished object) by collision.
–verb (used without object)
5. to develop or bear a discolored spot on the skin as the result of a blow, fall, etc.
6. to become injured slightly: His feelings bruise easily.
–noun
7. an injury due to bruising; contusion.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME bro(o)sen, bres(s)en, bris(s)en, bruisen, repr. OE brȳsan, brēsan and AF bruser, OF bruisier, akin to briser to break; see brisance
bruise   (brōōz)   
v.   bruised, bruis·ing, bruis·es

v.   tr.
    1. To injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of (part of the body) without breaking the skin, as by a blow.
    2. To damage (plant tissue), as by abrasion or pressure: bruised the fruit by careless packing.
  1. To dent or mar.
  2. To pound (berries, for example) into fragments; crush.
  3. To hurt, especially psychologically.
v.   intr.
To experience or undergo bruising: Peaches bruise easily.
n.  
  1. An injury to underlying tissues or bone in which the skin is not broken, often characterized by ruptured blood vessels and discolorations.
  2. A similar injury to plant tissue, often resulting in discoloration or spoilage.
  3. An injury, especially to one's feelings.

[Middle English bruisen, from Old English brȳsan, to crush, and from Old North French bruisier (of Germanic origin).]

Bruise

Bruise\ (br[udd]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bruised (br[udd]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bruising.] [OE. brusen, brisen, brosen, bresen, AS. br[=y]san or fr. OF. bruiser, bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochis[=o]n. Cf. Break, v. t.]

1. 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.

2. To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.

Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. --Shak.

Syn: To pulverize; bray; triturate; pound; contuse.

Bruise

Bruise\, v. i. To fight with the fists; to box.

Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom. --Thackeray.

Bruise

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.

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises. --Isa. i. 6.
Language Translation for : bruise
Spanish: morado, magulladura,
German: die Quetschung, blauer Fleck,
Japanese: 打撲傷

bruise 
O.E. brysan "to crush," from P.Gmc. *brusjanan, from PIE base *bhreus- "to smash, crush" (cf. O.Ir. bronnaim "I wrong, I hurt;" Bret. brezel "war," V.L. brisare "to break"). Merged by 17c. with Anglo-Fr. bruiser "to break, smash," from O.Fr. bruisier "to break, shatter," perhaps from Gaul. *brus-, from the same base. The noun is first recorded 1541. Bruiser "a boxer" is attested from 1744.

Main Entry: 1bruise
Pronunciation: 'brüz
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: bruised;bruis·ing
transitive senses
1 : to inflict a bruise on : CONTUSE
2 : WOUND, INJURE; especially : to inflictpsychological hurt on bruise intransitive senses
: to undergo bruising bruises easily>

Main Entry: 2bruise
Function: noun
1 : an injury transmitted through unbroken skin to underlying tissue causing rupture of small blood vessels andescape of blood into the tissue with resulting discoloration : CONTUSION
2 : an injury or hurt(as to the feelings or the pride)

bruise (br&oomacr;z)
n.
An injury to underlying tissues or bone in which the skin is unbroken, often characterized by ruptured blood vessels and discolorations; a contusion.

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