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verb

past tense of bruise

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Recent Examples of bruised
Adjective
Their bruised appearances may come from upper clouds parting to reveal darker layers underneath, or perhaps a dark cloud tower looming in the stratosphere. Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024 That also suggests that this was the tip of an iceberg of bruised feelings between the two of you. R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024 In a graphic clip that was shared on social media, the bloodied and bruised rapper can be seen hunched over on the ground following the attack. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2024 David also revealed his battered and bruised face under the mask, thanks to makeup from Victoria Beckham Cosmetics, naturally. Rachel Flynn, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bruised 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bruised
Adjective
  • Until the world contains only liberal democracies, Washington can hardly avoid seeking blemished friends.
    Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Throop returned to his hometown in 1990 to take stock of its blemished environment.
    Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
Verb
  • The Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three young children before slitting her wrists and jumping out of a second-story window in an attempt to take her own life is planning to seek an insanity defense, court records show.
    KC Baker, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The garlic and coriander mustn’t burn, the broth mustn’t boil, and the ladle should slit through a body that is just silky enough.
    Kristina Kasparian, Longreads, 12 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • All these and more can be seen below in a map of the 57 shots the 23-year-old former Arsenal academy youngster faced in the league before that untimely broken wrist against Mansfield Town on November 9.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • But the supply chains were so broken because of the pandemic.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In another incident that month, a train conductor was slashed in the neck.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • So much so that movement speeds of loads (up or down) were slashed by 85% compared to common-or-garden backpacks.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Related article Father of Australian teen who died in Laos urges government ‘to protect others’ from tainted alcohol Gavoka, who is also Fiji’s tourism minister, said close to a million tourists visit the island every year and thousands of tourists were currently holidaying on the Pacific Island.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The tainted chips would have been available for purchase as early as Nov. 3, 2024.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Their romantic affection was seemingly confirmed in 2012 when Bashar’s email account was hacked by the loose activist network Anonymous and published by Wikileaks.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Ascension was hacked through a social engineering email from a ransomware gang that lured an employee of Ascension to download malware that enabled the hacker to steal Ascension's data.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024

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“Bruised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bruised. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.

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