Word Meanings - BRUISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochison. Cf. 1. 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

Additional info about word: BRUISE

bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochison. Cf. 1. 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. 2. To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak. Syn. -- To pulverize; bray; triturate; pound; contuse.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRUISE)

• Bray
• Pound
• bruise
• beat
• pulverize
• Contusion
• Bruise
• knock
• blow
• Cudgel Pound
• buffet
• batter
• Hurt Wound
• harm
• injure
• damage
• pain
• grieve
• Beat
• triturate

Related words: (words related to BRUISE)

• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.
• BATTERING-RAM
  1. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes t a beam supported by posts, and so
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• POUNDCAKE
  A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
• BUFFETER
  One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.
• POUND
  1. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden. 2. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as,
• BATTER
  To flatten by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. (more info) batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. Abate, Bate to 1. To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise,
• POUNDER
  1. One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill. 2. An instrument used for pounding; a pestle. 3. A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying
• INJURE
  To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander,
• PULVERIZER
  One who, or that which, pulverizes.
• POUNDING
  1. The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating. 2. A pounded or pulverized substance. "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." J. S. Blackie.
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• KNOCKING
  A beating; a rap; a series of raps. The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper. H. Spencer.
• WOUNDLESS
  Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak.
• KNOCK-KNEE
  A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
• DAMAGE FEASANT
  Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.
• WOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
• POUNDRATE
  A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• IMPOUNDER
  One who impounds.
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• ENGRIEVE
  To grieve. Spenser.
• MISEXPOUND
  To expound erroneously.
• ENDAMAGE
  To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.
• IMPOUNDAGE
  1. The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded. 2. The fee or fine for impounding.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.