Definitions for bruise

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Spelling: [brooz]

IPA: /bruz/

Bruise is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in bruise (beirsu).

Definitions for bruise

noun

1. an injury due to bruising; contusion.

verb (used with object)

1. to injure by striking or pressing, without breaking the skin:
2. to injure or hurt slightly, as with an insult or unkind remark:
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)

1. to develop or bear a discolored spot on the skin as the result of a blow, fall, etc.
2. to become injured slightly:

Origin of bruise

before 900; Middle English bro(o)sen, bres(s)en, bris(s)en, bruisen, representing Old English brȳsan, brēsan and Anglo-French bruser, Old French bruisier, akin to briser to break; see

Examples for bruise

Lay it on a flat plate, and bruise it with the blade of a knife.

For the record: A bloody toe for a ballerina is like a bruise for a boxer: ho-hum.

Then drain off the water, bruise the bread fine, and mix it with as much new milk as will make a pap of a moderate thickness.

Wash some roots of sorrel quite clean, bruise them in a mortar, and steep them in white wine vinegar for two or three days.

His grasp did not bruise, it did not seem to be tight; but the hand that held it was immovable.

Something triggers his temper—the push may be hard enough to make her bruise.

Nana insisted it was a bruise that Leonie had given her when they were having a bit of a rough-house.

I got a bruise in the shape of a detailed boot print etched in my back.

As Obama and others press to raise the federal minimum wage about $7.25, skeptics say such a move could bruise the economy.

In contrast to gentle Eva, Naps liked to draw a little blood in bed, to bruise and be bruised in return.