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Definition of bruise : 1. 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.
2. To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
3. To fight with the fists; to box.
4. 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.

Synonyms:

spank, offend, defeat, damage, whip, slander, injure, pique, suffer, breakage, spoil, self-injury, switch, scourge, strike, smart, conquer, worst, blister, petechia, smite, disfigure, concussion, vanquish, harm, loss, mark, scandalise, shock, talk trash, black-and-blue mark, break, batter, belabor, crack, flog, scrape, pommel, blight, blemish, fracture, ecchymosis, go against, help, contuse, spite, discoloration, beat, sprain, scandalize, swelling, bastinado, outrage, take its toll, discredit, disgrace, strain, contusion, appal, blacken someone's reputation/name/character, taint, surpass, chip, bruising, thrash, smear, cudgel, mar, cut, shiner, abrasion, cast aspersions (on), castigate, burnout, disable, stain, pound, infract, appall, breach, chastise, black eye, transgress, graze, violate, overcome

pain (part of speech: noun)

gripe, spasm, hurt, chafing, inflammation, stitch, painfulness, suffering, wound, stab, malaise, grief, smarting, crick, bite, discomfort, sting, migraine, pain, pang, rack, torment, back-ache, injury, headache, earache, sore, agony, ache, affliction, irritation, anguish, wrench, throe, torture, misery, distress, infliction, burn, throb, cramp

pulp (part of speech: verb)

mash, crush, squash, pulp

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