1. bruise - Noun
2. bruise - Verb
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.
To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
To fight with the fists; to box.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. Anne Bradstreet
Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me. Stephenie Meyer
Better bend the neck than bruise the forehead. English Proverb
To eat with a bruise. Tahitian Proverb
Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise. Chinese Proverb