Associations to the word «Bruising»

Wiktionary

BRUISING, verb. Present participle of bruise
BRUISING, noun. (slang) A violent physical attack on a person.

Dictionary definition

BRUISING, adjective. Causing mental or emotional injury; "a bruising experience"; "protected from the bruising facts of battle"- John Mason Brown.
BRUISING, adjective. Brutally forceful and compelling; "protected from the bruising facts of battle".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne