bruising
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bruising
- /ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/
Rhymes with -uːzɪŋ
Where it comes from
From bruise + -ing.
verb
- present participle and gerund of bruise
adjective more bruising · most bruising
- That bruises.
- Wearisome, arduous. Instead England produced something that felt a little transgressive in this most controlled of stages, tightening their grip in a bruising first half, before freewheeling downhill in the second with their feet up on the handlebars.
noun bruisings
- A violent physical attack on a person. You'd better shut up or you'll get a bruising.
- Bruises on a person's skin. […] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lyin
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: harmful, forceful, concussion, mashing, swatting, blues, contusion, overalls, blue, blueprints, contusions, injuries, rookies, stuttering, kissing, groaning
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title = {bruising},
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