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Adjective(1) (2) causing mental or emotional injury(3) brutally forceful and compelling

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(1) The pants were straight legged, so they didn't show any bony legs and yet at the bottom, they still showed the right amount of skin, with no bruising .(2) Officials say President Bush is unlikely to want to subject himself to bruising confirmation hearings for a new director before the elections.(3) Mercifully, there was no permanent damage, just bruising .(4) The victim suffered swelling and bruising to his face and was taken to Wythenshawe Hospital.(5) Labour has been here before, both with Militant's tactics in the early 1980s and then with the bruising battle over its 1997 candidacy in Govan.(6) For his intentionally bruising play, Ingram will not be punished.(7) Most of those Senators are pretty popular in their home states, though Santorum may face a bruising re-election battle.(8) Abdominal findings and any sign of trauma or bruising also should be noted.(9) Wasting no time from their bruising debate in Arizona last night, seven of the nine presidential candidates headed back East.(10) The cull of Scottish Westminster MPs was last night given the go-ahead by Labour, sparking off a bruising battle for survival for two Scottish Cabinet ministers.(11) He was scratched all over his body and suffered swelling and bruising to his hand and the back of his head.(12) As was expected, this was a bruising encounter with both boxers trading punch for punch and bringing the crowd to its feet on a number of occasions.(13) In a tough and sometimes bruising premier league encounter, it was the home team Ferrybank who claimed the victory in this Premier League clash.(14) The victim was left with severe swelling and bruising to his ear and eye.(15) Both were kept at the hospital overnight for observation, one with cuts to his head, hands and face and the other suffering swelling and bruising to his face as well as cuts to his face, hands and body.(16) But anything that left a red mark on a child for several hours, broke the skin or caused bruising would be illegal.
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(1) bruise
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Verb
1. injure
2. mark
3. upset
5. wound


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