Usually means: Discoloration from blood vessel injury.
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  1. bruise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bruise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bruise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bruise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bruise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bruise, bruise: Wordnik
  7. bruise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bruise: Wiktionary
  9. bruise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bruise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bruise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bruise: Dictionary.com
  13. bruise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bruise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bruise (album), Bruise (disambiguation), Bruise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bruise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bruise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bruise: Rhymezone
  19. bruise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bruise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bruise: Free Dictionary
  22. bruise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bruise: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. bruise: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. bruise: Legal dictionary

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  1. bruise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Bruise: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  9. Bruise: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  10. bruise: Medical dictionary
  11. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  12. Bruise: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. bruise: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bruise: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The bruise, bruise: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
verb:  (transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
verb:  (intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
verb:  (intransitive) To become bruised.
verb:  (intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To harm or injure somebody's feelings or self-esteem.
verb:  (transitive) To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
noun:  A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
noun:  A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.

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