Bruise
[bruːz] or [bruz]
Definition
(noun.) an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration.
(verb.) damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure; 'The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them'.
(verb.) break up into small pieces for food preparation; 'bruise the berries with a wooden spoon and strain them'.
(verb.) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of; 'I bruised my knee'.
Inputed by Barnard--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
(v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.
(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.
Inputed by Elsa
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Crush, squeeze, contuse.[2]. Break, batter, pound, bray, pulverize, comminute, triturate, break to pieces.
n. Contusion.
Editor: Margie
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BREAK]
Inputed by Hahn
Definition
v.t. to crush by beating or pounding: to oppress: to box or fight with the fists: to ride recklessly in hunting careless alike of horse and crops: to reduce to small fragments.—n. a wound made by anything heavy and blunt.—p.adj. Bruised hurt by a heavy blow with skin crushed and discoloured.—n. Bruis′er one that bruises: a boxer.—p.adj. Bruis′ing boxing.
Typist: Shelley
Examples
- Thoroughly bruise the granate bark and pumpkin-seed, and with the ergot boil in eight ounces of water for fifteen minutes, and strain through a coarse cloth. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Leaning over me was Carthoris, a great bruise upon his forehead where the chain had struck, but alive, thank God, alive! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Blanch the bitter almonds and bruise them in a Wedgwood mortar, adding thereto the glycerine and using the pestle vigorously; a smooth paste is thus obtained. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- They bruise themselves very bad sometimes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I was unharmed except for a slight bruise upon my forehead where it had struck the stone flagging as I fell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But the lawyer shall know of those bruises on your arm, and of the violence offered to you in this room--he shall, before I rest to-night! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But a kind fate intervened, and by a miracle I escaped with but slight bruises. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She didn't give any milk, ma'am; she gave bruises. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- At four o'clock a lull took place, and baskets remained empty, while the apple pickers rested and compared rents and bruises. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She pointed, hastily, to some livid bruises on her neck and arms; and continued, with great rapidity: 'Remember this! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- To Tarzan they stand out boldly against all the myriad other scars and bruises and signs upon the leafy way. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They are so particular that even bruises must be trimmed out before the animals are allowed to pass and go on with the bulk which are fit for food. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Wounded too, and bruised. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The die is the same as the porochial seal--the Good Samaritan healing the sick and bruised man. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Already the knowledge that Dorothea had chosen Mr. Casaubon had bruised his attachment and relaxed its hold. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Did He not say that his mission, in all ages, was to bind up the broken-hearted, and set at liberty them that are bruised? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In doing so, she displaces the mother's dress, but quickly readjusts it over the wounded and bruised bosom where the baby has been lying. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When thoroughly dry it is grained with a toothed instrument on the flesh side and bruised on the grain or hair side for the purpose of softening the leather. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was badly hurt and bruised, and no small quantity of arnica was needed for his wounds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was alone with him, Marian--his cruel hand was bruising my arm--what could I do? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- So cold, so cold, a heavy, bruising cold pressing on his arms from outside, and a heavier cold congealing within him, in his heart and in his bowels. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Will somebody hand me anything hard and bruising to pelt at her? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The finest seeds, such as grass and clover, onion and turnip seed, and delicate seed like rice, are handled and sown by machines without crushing or bruising, and with the utmost exactness. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Percival