ALL meanings of bruise
bruise
B b - countable noun bruise A bruise is an injury which appears as a purple mark on your body, although the skin is not broken. 3
- verb bruise If you bruise a part of your body, a bruise appears on it, for example because something hits you. If you bruise easily, bruises appear when something hits you only slightly. 3
- verb bruise If a fruit, vegetable, or plant bruises or is bruised, it is damaged by being handled roughly, making a mark on the skin. 3
- verb bruise Bruise is also a noun. 3
- verb bruise If you are bruised by an unpleasant experience, it makes you feel unhappy or upset. 3
- verb bruise to injure (tissues) without breaking the skin, usually with discoloration, or (of tissues) to be injured in this way 3
- verb bruise to offend or injure (someone's feelings) by an insult, unkindness, etc 3
- verb bruise to damage the surface of (something), as by a blow 3
- verb bruise to crush (food, etc) by pounding or pressing 3
- noun bruise a bodily injury without a break in the skin, usually with discoloration; contusion 3
- verb transitive bruise to injure (body tissue), as by a blow, without breaking the skin but causing discoloration 3
- verb transitive bruise to injure the surface or outside of, causing spoilage, denting, etc. 3
- verb transitive bruise to crush with or as with mortar and pestle 3
- verb transitive bruise to hurt (the feelings, spirit, etc.) 3
- intransitive verb bruise to bruise tissue, a surface, etc. 3
- intransitive verb bruise to be or become bruised 3
- noun bruise a bruised area of tissue, of a surface, etc. 3
- noun bruise an injury to one's feelings, spirit, etc. 3
- noun bruise mark on body 1
- transitive verb bruise person, body: leave a bruise 1
- intransitive verb bruise leave a bruise 1
- intransitive verb bruise person: be bruised 1
- intransitive verb bruise fruit: be damaged 1
- transitive verb bruise crush or press food 1
- transitive verb bruise injure: sb's feelings 1
- transitive verb bruise fruit: damage 1
- verb with object bruise to injure by striking or pressing, without breaking the skin: The blow bruised his arm. Her pinching bruised the peaches. 1
- verb with object bruise to injure or hurt slightly, as with an insult or unkind remark: to bruise a person's feelings. 1
- verb with object bruise to crush (drugs or food) by beating or pounding. 1
- verb with object bruise Metalworking. to injure the surface of (an ingot or finished object) by collision. 1
- verb without object bruise to develop or bear a discolored spot on the skin as the result of a blow, fall, etc. 1
- verb without object bruise to become injured slightly: His feelings bruise easily. 1
- noun bruise an injury due to bruising; contusion. 1
- noun bruise (medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow. 0
- noun bruise A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface. 0
- verb bruise (Transitive Verb) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it. 0
- verb bruise (Transitive Verb) To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way. 0
- verb bruise (Intransitive Verb) Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly. 0
- verb bruise (Intransitive Verb) To become bruised. 0
- verb bruise (Intransitive Verb) To fight with the fists; to box. 0