All bruise synonyms

verb bruise

• mar — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
• injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
• blacken — To blacken something means to make it black or very dark in colour. Something that blackens becomes black or very dark in colour.
• wound — the act of winding.
• crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
• batter — If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
• bang up — When a prisoner is banged up, they are put in prison and locked in a cell.
• deface — If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
• pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
• pound — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
• mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
• zing — vitality, animation, or zest.
• blemish — A blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance.
• black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
• contuse — to injure (the body) without breaking the skin; bruise
• bung up — a stopper for the opening of a cask.
• do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.