Dictionary Entry
bruise
bruise is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
- 3intransitive verb
To fight with the fists; to box.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
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- 6verb
damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure
"The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them"
- 7verb
break up into small pieces for food preparation
"bruise the berries with a wooden spoon and strain them"
- 8verb
injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
"I bruised my knee"
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- 9verb
hurt the feelings of
"She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"
"This remark really bruised my ego"
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