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BROOZ/bruːz/

A bruise is a dark mark on the skin from a blow; as a verb, to cause or get that mark: a bruise on; bruise easily. Contusion is the medical twin; bump is everyday. A bruise featured in the medical notes; quote the date. Mix-up: bruise vs breeze; cruise (already related); do not write bruise for a cartoon bump with no clinical source.

Meaning

A dark mark on the skin from a blow; as a verb, to cause or get that mark.

Examples

• “A bruise featured in the medical notes; quote the date, not a cartoon bump.”
• “Fruit bruises in transit, the food-science practical said, which is the damage-to-produce sense.”

Good to know

a bruise on; bruise easily; bruising. Medical twin: contusion. Trap: breeze. Health, PE, and food science. A dark mark from a blow, not a comic-strip injury.

Near in meaning

contusion, mark, injury

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