Synonyms:
bruise, contusion
Meaning: an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
bruise, contuse
Meaning: injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of; "I bruised my knee"
Usage examples
There was a small blue bruise on his shining head.
She would wear holes in her stockings, and might seriously bruise her feet."
"See!" he cried, pointing to a great bruise on his wrist, with two tiny punctures in the middle of it from which a few drops of blood had oozed, "a rattlesnake has struck him.
But he was no outfielder as Ikey was; he picked them off the bat. At the same time he was Ikey's friend and customer, and often dropped in at the Blue Light Drug Store to have a bruise painted with iodine or get a cut rubber-plastered after a pleasant evening spent along the Bowery.