Bruise
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.
To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
To fight with the fists; to box.
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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Bruise Quotations
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.
Leonard Nimoy
The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.
Gene Siskel
I bruise like a grape.
Mo Rocca
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
Bruise Translations
bruise in Dutch is blauwe plek
bruise in French is meurtrissure, contusionner
bruise in Italian is livido, contusione
bruise in Latin is frendo, frendo
bruise in Norwegian is skade
bruise in Spanish is cardenal, acardenalar, cardenal
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