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[bruːz], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an injury appearing as an area of discoloured skin on the body, caused by a blow or impact rupturing underlying blood vessels
(e.g: his body was a mass of bruises after he had been attacked)
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Origin
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Old English brȳsan ‘crush or injure with a blow’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French bruisier ‘break’
[bruːz], (Verb)
Definitions:
- inflict a bruise or bruises on (a part of the body)
(e.g: I fell and bruised my knee)
- crush or pound (food)
(e.g: add the beans, tomatoes, and lime wedges and roughly bruise with the pestle)
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Origin
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Old English brȳsan ‘crush or injure with a blow’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French bruisier ‘break’
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