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bruize

bruize is the obsolete form of bruise.

Meaning of bruise

Noun

bruise (plural bruises)

  1. A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
  2. A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.

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Forms of bruize

pluralbruizes

Questions about bruize

What is bruize the obsolete form of?
Bruize is the obsolete form of bruise.

Words near bruize in the dictionary

  1. bruitify
  2. bruitifying
  3. bruiting
  4. bruitings
  5. bruits
  6. bruize
  7. bruizes
  8. bruja
  9. brujas
  10. brujería
  11. brujerías

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bruize (page history and authors); bruise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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