bruising

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of bruisepresent participle and gerund of bruise

adjective

1. 1

   That bruises.

2. 2

   Wearisome, arduous.

   Instead England produced something that felt a little transgressive in this most controlled of stages, tightening their grip in a bruising first half, before freewheeling downhill in the second with their feet up on the handlebars.

noun

1. 1

   slangA violent physical attack on a person.

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

2. 2

   Bruises on a person's skin.

   […] 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.

   Of the nine staff in the third coach, most had been having a break, drinking tea or reading. One suffered a fractured skull, another a fractured shoulder. All were either thrown along or across the coach, sustaining cuts, bruising and whiplash injuries.

Forms

plural

bruisings

comparative

more bruising

superlative

most bruising