Bruise vs Brise - What's the difference?
bruise | brise |
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.
(obsolete, rare) A tract of land that has been left untilled for a long time.
* 1616 : Richard Surflet [tr.] and Gervase Markham [aug.], Estienne and Liébault’s Maison Rustique, or The Countrie Farme , page 92
As nouns the difference between bruise and brise
is that bruise is (medicine) a purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow while brise is breeze.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.
Derived terms
* bruiser * bruisingNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (medical) ecchymosis, contusion (technical term ) * See alsoAnagrams
* * * English ergative verbs ----brise
English
Noun
- Afterward let him draw a Brise or two made fast in the yoke.
References
* “†brise]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989