Bruising

Quick meaning: Bruising is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of bruise.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of bruise.

More Meanings

1. That bruises.
2. Wearisome, arduous.
3. Bruises on a person's skin.
4. (slang) A violent physical attack on a person.

Example Sentences

You'd better shut up or you'll get a bruising.

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.

Of the nine staff in the third coach, most had been having a break, drinking tea or reading. One suffered a fractured skull, another a fractured shoulder. All were either thrown along or across the coach, sustaining cuts, bruising and whiplash injuries.

[…] 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 lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot.

Word Forms

• bruisings

Synonyms for bruising

Depending on context, synonyms include harmful, forceful.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include harmful, forceful, concussion, mashing, swatting, blues.

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