(v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
(v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
(v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.
(n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most injuries due to accidents have been bruises, wounds and bone fractures of upper and lower limbs.
(2) Grosics did his best between the posts, but the team succumbed to Wales in a bruising play-off, thus failing to advance beyond the first stage.
(3) Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type IV is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by thin skin, prominent venous vascular markings, markedly increased bruising, and an increased likelihood of large bowel and large artery rupture.
(4) Television images of his body showed heavy bruising to his face.
(5) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
(6) The acquired platelet function defects, especially those resulting from drugs, are very common and should promptly be suspected in patients developing easy and spontaneous bruising, mild to moderate mucosal membrane hemorrhage, or unexplained bleeding associated with trauma or surgery.
(7) When she returned she had a large bruise on her forehead.
(8) Lowest content of ascorbic acid occurred in bruised beans cooked in copper-fortified water.
(9) The decision by Moody's deals a bruising blow to the embattled chancellor, George Osborne, who has repeatedly nailed his credibility to the AAA rating.
(10) Iran’s supreme leader has accused Saudi Arabia of committing genocide in Yemen and said air strikes against Houthi rebels are doomed to fail, in a sharp escalation of tensions between the two rivals over the outcome of yet another bruising conflict in the Middle East.
(11) When we were treating him, he was not screaming or crying, just in shock.” There was so much there in his face, the blood and the dust mixed, at that age Mustafa al-Sarout Hours after he and his family were rescued, Omran was discharged from hospital, having suffered a head injury and bruises in the attack, but nothing too serious.
(12) Sir David Nicholson's bruising tenure as chief executive of the NHS saw him take a further battering from MPs as the public accounts committee criticised him over big pay rises for consultants and a range of other issues, including his penchant for first class rail travel.
(13) Bruising was the most frequent injury and was most prevalent among boys under 3 years of age.
(14) 4) In case of the death caused by the bruise sustained on the occipital region, casualties on gyrus frontale were recognized by 97%, while the bruise located on other than the occipital region, injuries were recognized by 51% on the opposite region, and the remaining 49% of it showed injuries on the same region of the sustained.
(15) He required hospital treatment for a potentially life-changing eye injury, a fractured cheekbone and substantial bruising to his body.
(16) Jen Dunstan, of Sheffield Disabled People Against the Cuts, told the Star: “Dozens of elderly and disabled people have been left with bruising.
(17) After months of bruising negotiation and a threatened legal challenge from the EC, a compromise was negotiated in 2005 under which the Premier League promised to sell the rights to at least two broadcasters.
(18) Monti has faced a bruising time as prime minister: battling with unions at home to reform the labour laws, and tussling with Angela Merkel on the euro summit circus.
(19) It's a harsh tale of contemporary Russia, as beautiful as a bruise.
(20) The case of Bo Xilai , the former Communist party high-flyer brought down after the mysterious death of a British businessman, was a wild courtroom drama full of explosive confessions, unexpected revelations and bruising confrontations.
Bruiser
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, bruises.
(n.) A boxer; a pugilist.
(n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other is a 330lb bruiser who has admitted to smoking crack cocaine, "a lot of marijuana" and to an alcohol problem.
(2) Parliamentary byelections, which Hanna transformed into memorable TV fiestas in the Thatcher era, have become tepid and tedious since the bonhomous Belfast bruiser quit the BBC in 1987.
(3) 4.24pm BST BRUSSELS BRACED FOR BRUISING SUMMIT From Brussels, our Europe editor Ian Traynor reports that officials and diplomats are predicting a bit of a bruiser: Ian writes: Paris and Berlin presenting conflicting demands that boil down to a power grab by Berlin for control of other people's budgets and a bid by Paris to force Germany to shell out more quickly and more easily for bailouts and shoring up dodgy banks.
(4) Now, Henry might have a reputation for being a bruiser, but McCormack seemed to kick into Henry’s attempted pass as far as I could see from that challenge.
(5) Alan Johnson's reputation as a down-to-earth and good-natured bruiser will be sorely tested in his new job as shadow chancellor, co-ordinating Labour's opposition to the coalition's cuts.
(6) Compact and soft-spoken, Serwotka is from a slightly different mould than bruisers like the RMT's Bob Crow.
(7) Long before his embarrassing apology, the derision and invitations to "grow a pair" that greeted Nick Clegg's admission of emotional responses to music and literature, indicated – along with speculation about his controlling wife – limited interest in challenging the inflexible "big beast" and "bruiser" orthodoxies of political success.
(8) Although the received wisdom is that Sturgeon softens Salmond's bruiser image, Adam Tomkins, professor of law at Glasgow University and an independent adviser to the Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, points out: "When Salmond put her in charge of the campaign in 2012, one reason was to close the gap in support for independence among women, and that has not shifted very much.
(9) The generals face accusations they cannot protect the country's borders, its military bases or their own street bruisers.
(10) Despite Balls's undoubted intellectual credentials his reputation as a political bruiser and Brown's attack dog worked against him during the leadership campaign.
(11) • The following correction was published on 29 January 2012: North by north-east: "Political bruiser with a robust approach to crime" (News) was wrong to say that if Lord Prescott were to run for police commissioner for Humberside he would be returning to his "native north-east".
(12) Diamante looked fantastic on a bloke, especially if you looked like a bit of a bruiser.
(13) O'Reilly, Fox's most popular news star and a best-selling author, claims he is the target of a politically motivated, $60m (£33.2m) extortion attempt by his accuser, 32-year-old Fox News producer Andrea Mackris, and her lawyer, a well-known legal bruiser, Benedict Morelli.
(14) That slightly undermined the Wolves' own understandable indignation when Wigan's second-row bruiser Harrison Hansen threw himself either recklessly or cynically at the legs of Stefan Ratchford when he was being held up by another Wigan defender – a possible example of the cannonball tackle that has caused much controversy in recent years.
(15) The famous five candidates have long fallen into habitual roles, but – maddening as it must be to the bruiser Balls and the outsider Abbott and the scouser Burnham – the fascination of the contest has generally and inevitably been the familial one to which it seems to have narrowed down, just about the oldest story line of all, and one which rarely finds a happy ending.
(16) Alas, Skyrim's bruiser would make mincemeat out of Friedrich's thoughtful ramblers.
(17) There’s a long way to go but, without Ofsted being there, I’ve no doubt standards will fall and we would go backwards, not forwards.” In his sometimes turbulent time at the inspectorate, he suggested parents should be fined if they do not turn up for parents’ evening; he said teachers who leave at 3pm should be paid less; he has backed schools that ban “inappropriate wearing” of full-face veils and issued a call to arms for maverick school leaders who are “battlers, bruisers and battle-axes” who will not put up with mediocrity.
(18) So who is that bruiser with the generous Rolodex and secret service protection, race-baiting his way around the campaign trail making her case on her behalf?
(19) In Group A, the patients that reported easy bruising tended to be older (61 vs 52 yrs), on higher daily dosages (1,388 vs 1,067 micrograms) and had been taking inhaled corticosteroids for longer (55 vs 43 months) than non-bruisers.
(20) I respect the choice that Jeremy has made as leader.” McDonnell acknowledged his reputation as a political bruiser at a meeting organised by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Corn Exchange in Brighton on Sunday night.