I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bruised ego (= when you feel less confident than before )
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I need someone to massage my bruised ego .
cuts and bruises (= cuts and dark marks on the skin )
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He escaped the crash with just a few cuts and bruises.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
purple
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Seven or eight months pregnant with bruised arms and a purple bruise round her eyes.
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I stroke her lifeless cheek, and as I do the deep purple bruises seem to fade a little.
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His hair was sticky with blood and a purple bruise was spreading across his temple.
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His face was a mass of purple bruises , his lips swollen and split and his eyes lost behind puffy tissue.
■ VERB
cover
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Quickly she covered the bruise with her collar.
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Lucy never wore slacks or make-up, except when he permitted it in order to cover a bruise .
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Willie's arms and legs were covered in bruises , weals and sores.
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The jury was told that the baby was covered with forty bruises , nineteen of them on her head.
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It covers bruises , grazes, black eyes and burns.
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Visitors report seeing Mr Nugroho covered in bruises and unable to speak.
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She adjusted the scarf to cover the bruises forming on her neck.
get
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Chrissie's got scratches and bruises .
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He got the bruise on his nose then, from hitting a wall.
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He got bruises and sores all over him.
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That's how she got that bruise .
see
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Doyle could see bruises on the man's neck.
suffer
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He suffered bruises and faces charges.
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He had suffered cuts and bruises .
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The total number of civilian casualties was seventy-seven, most of whom had suffered bruises or lacerations to the head.
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On 11 May 1991 he was taken to hospital suffering from 18 bruises and a bite mark.
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It was said that Mrs Fribbins had suffered a bruise to her eye after being hit during a bed changing incident.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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How did you get that bruise on your shoulder?
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I banged into the shelf so hard that I got an ugly purple bruise on my hip.
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Jack often comes home from rugby covered in cuts and bruises.
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Jenny looked as though she'd been crying, and there was a nasty bruise on her cheek.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her head throbbed in rhythm with her bruises, yet she'd hardly noticed any of it downstairs.
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I stroke her lifeless cheek, and as I do the deep purple bruises seem to fade a little.
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I was intoxicated with the information he had provided me, and my bruises were forgotten.
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Joachim cleaned my face, wiping dirt from the bruises whilst I greedily gulped the thick red claret.
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She nursed a bone bruise in her ankle most of the season, a painful injury that limited her impact.
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She pinched bruises on her daughter's inner arm, and had poured hot tea on both daughters.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
badly
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There was a little blood around his mouth and his eyes were badly bruised .
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Taylor was left badly bruised down his right side-from leg to shoulder-but escaped without permanent injuries.
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Trapped in an eddy Graham was retrieved from the barrel badly bruised , just before he almost died of suffocation.
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He's badly bruised and has difficulty moving because of the stab wound to his back.
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At last, badly bruised and scratched, they were forced to haul themselves back up to their island prison.
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Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment.
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His nose had bled and his forehead and face were badly bruised from his fall; but he was not seriously hurt.
■ NOUN
face
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The father had punched Michael, then three, and caused bruising to his face .
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She phoned me in my room to say she had slipped in the bath and badly bruised her face .
■ VERB
cut
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Three women hit by the runaway car were cut and bruised - and one suffered a broken leg.
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She was sitting on the top deck and was cut and bruised by branches.
suffer
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The woman suffered bruising to the head and body in the impact and went on sick leave from work.
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Their leading scorer, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, suffered a bruised right quadriceps against Seattle on Wednesday and missed the game.
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His wife, Olivia, 51, suffered bruising to her head and face.
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Zeier took over in the second quarter after starter Vinny Testaverde suffered bruised ribs while being sacked.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Keller badly bruised a hip, and came off early in the second half of the match.
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Mom fell on the ice and bruised the side of her leg.
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My skin bruises quite easily.
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Not getting the promotion really bruised his ego.
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Payton bruised his hip ten minutes into the game.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But her whole body, strained and bruised as if he had beaten her, that was the monument to his reality.
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He bruised his right shoulder the week before in the win over the Rams.
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He had pulled her down, so that she fell heavily on the asphalt, bruising and grazing her legs.
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He was standing just inside the doorway, supporting Piper O'Rourke, who was looking old, tired and bruised.
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Safety Tim McDonald had bruised a left shoulder in the Rams game, which flared up again Sunday.
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Strong safety Tim McDonald bruised his left shoulder, an injury he brought into the game and exacerbated.
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The models reeling down the catwalks are stick thin, their faces cavernous and bruised, their hair matted.