1MIINJURE[intransitiveI, transitiveT] if part of your body bruises, or if you bruise part of your body, it gets hit or hurt and a bruise appears (使)碰伤,擦伤;(使)成瘀伤
2[transitiveT] to affect someone badly and make them feel less confident 打击,挫伤〔某人的自信心〕
bruise somebody’s pride/ego
The incident had bruised his pride.
这件事挫伤了他的自尊心。
3.HBP[intransitiveI, transitiveT] if a piece of fruit bruises, or is bruised, it gets a bruise by being hit, dropped etc (使)〔水果〕碰伤,擦伤
—bruisedadjectiveadj
a badly bruised knee
严重碰伤的膝盖
a bruised ego
受伤的自尊心
Examples from the Corpus
bruise• He was standing just inside the doorway, supportingPiper O'Rourke, who was looking old, tired and bruised.• Keller badly bruised a hip, and came off early in the secondhalf of the match.• Safety Tim McDonald had bruised a left shoulder in the Rams game, which flared up again Sunday.• He had pulled her down, so that she fell heavily on the asphalt, bruising and grazing her legs.• But her whole body, strained and bruised as if he had beaten her, that was the monument to his reality.• Not getting the promotion really bruised his ego.• Payton bruised his hip ten minutes into the game.• Strong safety Tim McDonald bruised his left shoulder, an injury he brought into the game and exacerbated.• He bruised his right shoulder the week before in the win over the Rams.• My skin bruises quite easily.• Mom fell on the ice and bruised the side of her leg.• The models reeling down the catwalks are stickthin, their faces cavernous and bruised, their hair matted.
Originbruise2
Old Englishbrysan“to press so as to break, bruise”, later influenced by Old Frenchbrisier, bruisier“to break”