bruise
noun
[ bruːz ]
• an injury appearing as an area of discoloured skin on the body, caused by a blow or impact rupturing underlying blood vessels.
• "his body was a mass of bruises after he had been attacked"
Similar:
contusion,
lesion,
mark,
injury,
black-and-blue mark,
skin discoloration,
blackening,
swelling,
lump,
bump,
welt,
black eye,
shiner,
ecchymosis,
trauma,
bruise
verb
• inflict a bruise or bruises on (a part of the body).
• "I fell and bruised my knee"
Similar:
contuse,
injure,
mark,
make black and blue,
discolour,
blacken,
hurt,
blemish,
damage,
spoil,
impair,
mar,
• crush or pound (food).
• "add the beans, tomatoes, and lime wedges and roughly bruise with the pestle"
Origin:
Old English brȳsan ‘crush or injure with a blow’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French bruisier ‘break’.
