Birthmark vs Bruise - What's the difference?
birthmark | bruise |
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.
To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
To become bruised.
To fight with the fists; to box.
* Thackeray
(medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.
As nouns the difference between birthmark and bruise
is that birthmark is a mark on the skin formed before birth while bruise is a purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.As a verb bruise is
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.bruise
English
(wikipedia bruise)Alternative forms
* bruize (obsolete)Verb
(bruis)- Bananas bruise easily.
- I bruise easily.
- Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.
