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bruised up

bruised up is the simple past and past participle of bruise up.

Meaning of bruise up

Verb

bruise up (third-person singular simple present bruises up, present participle bruising up, simple past and past participle bruised up)

  1. (transitive) To cause bruises to appear, usually by beating or battering.
  2. (intransitive) To show or get bruises.
    • Instead, we must find an unworthy substitute for the defeat of a foe in that small grin we quickly suppress when we learn that a beheadphoned texter got hit by a car—no, not seriously injured, just bruised up enough to give him a wake-up call.2021, William Ian Miller, “The Law of Conservation of Good Things”, in Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 34

Questions about bruised up

What is bruised up the simple past and past participle of?
Bruised up is the simple past and past participle of bruise up.

Words near bruised up in the dictionary

  1. bruisable
  2. bruisably
  3. bruise
  4. bruise up
  5. bruised
  6. bruised up
  7. bruisedness
  8. bruiseless
  9. bruiselessness
  10. bruiselike
  11. bruiser

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