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bruises up

bruises up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bruises up

What is bruises up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bruises up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bruise up.

Words near bruises up in the dictionary

  1. bruiselessness
  2. bruiselike
  3. bruiser
  4. bruisers
  5. bruises
  6. bruises up
  7. bruisest
  8. bruisewort
  9. bruiseworts
  10. bruising
  11. bruising up

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