[ US /ˈbɹuz/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈuːz/ ]
VERB
  1. break up into small pieces for food preparation
    bruise the berries with a wooden spoon and strain them
  2. injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
    I bruised my knee
  3. damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure
    The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them
  4. hurt the feelings of
    This remark really bruised my ego
    She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
NOUN
  1. an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
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How To Use bruise In A Sentence

  • Suffice to say there are a few bruised knees. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most had fresh bruises, which he himself no doubt had inflicted, and looked to be even easier pushovers than before.
  • He got more bruises and cuts, muscle pulls and strains than he could remember.
  • She refused and subsequently suffered injuries to her shoulder, pulled muscles and bruises.
  • After a cut on the face or an exudation into the lungs, the loose tissues and multiple vessels allow the proliferating cells to obtain rich nourishment; absorption can take place readily, and the part regains its normal condition entirely, while a bruise at the heel or at the withers finds a dense, inextensible tissue where the multiplying elements and exuded fluids choke up all communication, and the parts die Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped. Undefined
  • He probably would have still been teaching at Premiere Guild right now if he hadn't fell down a flight of stairs and broken his hip and bruised his tail bone.
  • The plastic tie wraps the police had used on her wrists left welts and bruises.
  • With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones? and fan, Carrion Comfort « Unknowing
  • I left Chop Suey slightly bruised from getting in the way of an impromptu one-man mosh pit and grinning foolishly, which is the way all the best shows end. The Parson Red Heads and Blitzen Trapper at Chop Suey | Seattle Metblogs
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