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Sore vs Bruise - What's the difference?

sore | bruise |

As nouns the difference between sore and bruise

is that sore is while 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.

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.

sore

English

(wikipedia sore)

Adjective

(er)
  • Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
    • Her feet were sore from walking so far.
  • Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
  • * Tillotson
    • Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
  • Dire; distressing.
    • The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
  • (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
    • Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
  • (obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * sight for sore eyes * sorely * soreness * sore point

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (lb) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
  • :
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • Sorely.
  • *1919 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Jungle Tales of Tarzan
  • *:[… they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
    • They put ointment and a bandage on the sore .
  • Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • I see plainly where his sore lies.
  • A group of ducks on land. (See also: sord).
  • A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
  • A young buck in its fourth year.

    • Verb

  • mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.

    • Derived terms

    * soring

    See also

    * blister * lesion * ulcer

    Anagrams

    * ----

    bruise

    English

    (wikipedia bruise)

    Alternative forms

    * bruize (obsolete)

    Verb

    (bruis)
  • 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.
    • Bananas bruise easily.
  • To become bruised.
    • I bruise easily.
  • To fight with the fists; to box.
  • * Thackeray
    • Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.

    Derived terms

    * bruiser * bruising

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (medical) ecchymosis, contusion (technical term ) * See also

    Anagrams

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