OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 11945

bruise

/bɹuːz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
contusionar • macar (disused) • magullar • mallugar • moretear
To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it; to contuse.
It is as I have spoken: the testing first, next the bruising, and in the last bout the breaking and killing.
estropearse • macarse • machacar • magullar • magullarse • mazar
Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
Bananas bruise easily.
amoratarse • magullarse • salirse moratones
To become bruised.
I bruise easily.