bruising
adjective
[ ˈbruːzɪŋ ]
• causing a bruise or bruises.
• "his legs took the bruising blows"
bruising
noun
• bruises on the skin.
• "her arm showed signs of bruising"
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’.
