Definitions of bruise

1. To batter; dent; inflict a bruise or bruises; contuse; crush.

2. To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.

3. To injure, crush, or indent by a blow or pressure; to crush by beating or pounding.

4. To crush or indent by a heavy blow.

5. To fight with the fists; to box.

6. To fight with the flots; box.

7. damage ( plant tissue) by abrasion of pressure; " The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them"

8. break up into small pieces, as in food preparation; " bruise the berries with a wooden spoon and strain them"

9. To crush by beating, pounding, or squeezing; to injure by a blow, fall, or squeeze; to contuse.

10. To crush or hurt by pressure; to pound or reduce to coarse powder, as minerals or grain.

11. break up into small pieces for food preparation; " bruise the berries with a wooden spoon and strain them"

12. An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.

13. An injury to the flesh of an animal, plant, etc., caused by a blow, but not breaking the skin.

14. A wound made by anything heavy and blunt.

15. Wound made by a heavy blow.

16. A surface injury caused by violent contact; contusion.

17. A hurt with a blunt or heavy instrument; a contusion.

18. An injury on the flesh by its being crushed with a heavy or blunt substance; a contusion.