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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bruise \Bruise\, v. i.
To fight with the fists; to box.
Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English
custom. --Thackeray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bruise
n : an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some
discoloration [syn: {contusion}]
v : injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of "I bruised my
knee" [syn: {contuse}]
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