Meaning of Bruising | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A violent physical attack on a person.
   slang
2. Bruises on a person's skin.

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Examples

“You'd better shut up or you'll get a bruising.”

“[…] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot.”

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