a bodily injury in which small blood vessels are broken but the overlying skin is not
she got quite a big bruise from walking into the corner of the table
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Recent Examples of bruise
Noun
Bromelain’s anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving effects are often used to treat sports injuries, bruises, contractures, strains and muscle pulls.—Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025 The third time the camera finds him, Quaid still has the cast and neck brace, in addition to new bruises and a bandage around his head.—Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
Giuffre went home at first with some bruising and later checked into a hospital.—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 4 Apr. 2025 Elon Musk’s $25 million money couldn’t buy votes in Wisconsin, MAGA bruised
Robby Soave and Marianne Williamson react to Judge Susan Crawford, a liberal, winning the open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.—The Hill, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bruise
And the four-year-old was sporting a bruise and cuts under his right eye, having got into a recent scrape, the Daily Mail reported at the time.
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Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
Morgan, who is one half of the women's tag-team champions, had a scratch across her stomach as well as multiple bruises and scrapes up and down her arms.
Sheriff McDowell, who's on the ground wounded, sees Banner kill Clyde.
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Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
6 Apr. 2025
On April 2, Russian forces launched multiple strikes on residential areas in the front line city of Pokrovsk, killing one civilian and wounding six others.
Wiggins missed one game due to a stomach illness, five games due to a sprained right ankle, two games due to a left lower leg contusion and now five straight games due to a hamstring issue.
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Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2025
Cam Johnson, who missed Thursday’s game because of a lower back contusion, appeared to recognize the severity of Edwards’ injury right away.
Akhmad, another plaintiff who like many Indonesians uses one name, said he was forced to continue working after a load of fish fell on his leg, gashing it through to the bone and filling his boot with blood.
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Lex Harvey,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
Akhmad alleged that the captain also forced him to keep working after his leg was gashed to the bone.
Then, fearing he'd be blamed, Tripp stole a knife from the office of pastry chef Didier Gotthard (Bronson Pinchot) and used it to slit A.B.'s wrists in order to make his death look more like a suicide.
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Megan McCluskey,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
Heat is then directed upward and outward via outlet slits on the card edges to reduce the recirculation of heated air.
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