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as in scratch
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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as in scrape
an area of skin roughened or worn away by harsh rubbing against another surface bruises caused by ill-fitting hiking boots

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verb

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bruise
Noun
  • Hassabis and Murdoch had to hire a team from scratch.
    Hayden Field, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
  • While some were raised by reality TV royalty or hail from a famous family, others are starting their empires from scratch.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Sheriff McDowell, who's on the ground wounded, sees Banner kill Clyde.
    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.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • One person is believed to have suffered a leg fracture and at least a dozen people were treated on-scene for minor abrasions.
    Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Geneva police officers found a woman having difficulty walking on her own, with abrasions and bruising on her face, officials said.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • 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.
    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.
    Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For example, a contact list of 150,000 bumps the Standard subscription to $1,456 per month.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Other game industry analysts similarly don't expect Nintendo to announce a price bump so soon after its initial pricing announcement.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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.
    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.
    John Burek, PCMAG, 20 Jan. 2025

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“Bruise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bruise. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.

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