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Contuse :: Contuse (v. t.) To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.

Bruise :: Bruise (n.) 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..

Maul :: Maul (v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

Tender :: Tender (superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit..

Trash :: Trash (n.) Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like..

Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) A boxer; a pugilist.

Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.

Surbate :: Surbate (v. t.) To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel..

Triturate :: Triturate (v. t.) To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash..

Soapwort :: Soapwort (n.) A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation..

Lave :: Lave (v. t.) To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise..

Samp :: Samp (n.) An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy..

Amber Tree :: Amber tree () A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor..

Pepper :: Pepper (v. t.) Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds..

Forbruise :: Forbruise (v. t.) To bruise sorely or exceedingly.

Tread :: Tread (n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3..

Kibble :: Kibble (v. t.) To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats..

Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart..

Hurt :: Hurt (v. t.) To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.

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