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Yes. The word bruise is a Scrabble US word. The word bruise is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word bruise is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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6-letter words (4 found)

BRUISE,BURIES,BUSIER,RUBIES,

5-letter words (11 found)

BIERS,BIRSE,BREIS,BRIES,BRISE,BURSE,REBUS,RIBES,RUBES,SIEUR,SUBER,

4-letter words (24 found)

BIER,BISE,BREI,BRIE,BRIS,BRUS,BURS,IRES,IURE,REBS,REIS,RIBS,RISE,RUBE,RUBS,RUES,RUSE,SEIR,SIRE,SUER,SURE,URBS,URES,USER,

3-letter words (25 found)

BES,BIS,BRU,BUR,BUS,ERS,IRE,REB,REI,RES,RIB,RUB,RUE,SEI,SER,SIB,SIR,SRI,SUB,SUE,SUI,SUR,URB,URE,USE,

2-letter words (9 found)

BE,BI,ER,ES,IS,RE,SI,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 74 words from bruise according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of bruise

bruise

Alternative forms

  • bruize (obsolete)
  • brise (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English bruisen, brusen, brosen, brisen, bresen, from a merger two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”):

  • Old English brȳsan, brīesan (“to bruise; crush”), from Proto-Germanic *brausijaną, *brūsijaną (“to break; crumble; crack”). Provided the word's sense.
  • Anglo-Norman bruiser, bruser (“to break, smash, shatter”), from Gaulish *brus-, from Proto-Celtic *bruseti (“to break”). Provided the word's form.

Cognate with Scots brizz, German brausen (“to roar; boom; pound”), Old English brosnian (“to crumble, fall apart”), Dutch broos (“brittle”), German Brosame (“crumb”), dialectal Norwegian brøysk (“breakable”), Latin frustum (“bit, scrap”), Old Church Slavonic бръснути (brŭsnuti, “to rake”), Albanian breshër (“hail”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: bro͞oz, IPA(key): /bɹuːz/, /bɹɪu̯z/
  • Homophone: brews
  • Rhymes: -uːz

Verb

bruise (third-person singular simple present bruises, present participle bruising, simple past and past participle bruised)

  1. (transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
  2. (transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
  3. (intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
    Bananas bruise easily.
  4. (intransitive) To become bruised.
    I bruise easily.
  5. (intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
  6. (transitive, figurative) To harm or injure.
    Her thoughtless remarks bruised my ego.
  7. (transitive) To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.

Derived terms

  • bruise up
  • bruiser
  • bruising

Translations

Noun

bruise (plural bruises)

  1. A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
  2. A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.

Synonyms

  • (medical): contusion (technical term), ecchymosis (differentiated in some terminologies)
  • See also Thesaurus:injury

Hypernyms

  • hematoma

Translations

Anagrams

  • Uribes, buries, busier, rubies

Dutch

Verb

bruise

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of bruisen

Irish

Noun

bruise f sg

  1. genitive singular of bruis (“brush; pubic hair”)

Mutation

References

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bruise”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Source: wiktionary.org