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Bruising

//ˈbɹuːzɪŋ// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    brutally forceful and compelling wordnet
  2. 2
    causing mental or emotional injury wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A violent physical attack on a person. slang

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of bruise form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From bruise + -ing.

Etymology 2

From bruise + -ing.

Etymology 3

From bruise + -ing.

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