Definition of "bruise"

bruise

/bɹuːz/

verb
third-person singular simple present bruises, present participle bruising, simple past and past participle bruised
1. (transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
2. (transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
3. (intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
4. (intransitive) To become bruised.
5. (intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
  Quotations
  Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.
  1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […]
6. (transitive, figurative) To harm or injure.
7. (transitive) To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
noun
plural bruises
1. A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
2. A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.