Bruising

This is a bruising information war. At this rate we'll never come out on top. We've got to replace our CIO.

However he wasn't seriously hurt and got away with light bruising.

And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.

Yanni had bruising and marks on his body.

Do you have any unexplained bruising or bleeding?

He was cruising for a bruising.

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.

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

[…] 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.