1 to develop a bruise, or make a bruise or bruises appear on the skin of sb/sth:
[V] Strawberries bruise easily. * [VN] She had slipped and badly bruised her face.
2 [VN] [usuallypassive] to affect sb badly and make them feel unhappy and less confident:
They had been badly bruised by the defeat.
bruised adjective:
He suffered badly bruised ribs in the crash. * bruised fruit * a bruised ego
bruising noun [U]:
She suffered severe bruising, but no bones were broken. * internal bruising
seealsoBRUISINGadj.
Part of speech: noun
1 a blue, brown or purple mark that appears on the skin after sb has fallen, been hit, etc:
to be covered in bruises * cuts and bruises * a huge bruise over his eye
2 a mark on a fruit or vegetable where it is damaged
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for bruise is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is bruise a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, bruise is tagged as verb.
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