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bruised adjective [ bruːzd ]

• (of a person or body part) having a bruise or bruises.
• "a bruised knee"
• (of food) having been crushed or pounded.
• "the mix contains bruised oats"

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’.


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