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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope