If you are bruised by an unpleasant experience, it makes you feel unhappy or upset. The government will be severely bruised by yesterday's events + bruising bruis·ing the bruising experience of near-bankruptcy. or contusion Visible bluish or purplish mark beneath the surface of unbroken skin, indicating burst blood vessels in deeper tissue layers. Bruises are usually caused by a blow or pressure, but they may occur spontaneously in elderly persons. The yellowish hue that becomes visible as a bruise heals comes from the disintegration and gradual absorption of blood
hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"
an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration damage (plant tissue) by abrasion of pressure; "The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them"
with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit
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