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