Word Meaning

Meaning of "bruise" and the crossword clue

- Black eye
- contusion
- Damage (fruit)
- Hurt peeper viewing decrepit shrine
- Injury under the skin
- 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.
- To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
- To fight with the fists; to box.
- 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.