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say it: brooz
bruise is a verb and noun meaning "injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of". It carries 5 recorded senses.
break up into small pieces for food preparation
“bruise the berries with a wooden spoon and strain them”
cooking
damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure
“The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them”
plant
an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bruise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.