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English
Etymology
From bruise + -ing.
Pronunciation
Verb
bruising
- present participle and gerund of bruise
Adjective
bruising (comparative more bruising, superlative most bruising)
- That bruises.
- Wearisome, arduous.
2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian: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.
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Noun
bruising (plural bruisings)
- (slang) A violent physical attack on a person.
You'd better shut up or you'll get a bruising.
- Bruises on a person's skin.
1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, pages 251–252:[…] 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.
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