Bruised vs Bruited - What's the difference?

bruised | bruited |

As verbs the difference between bruised and bruited

is that bruised is past tense of bruise while bruited is past tense of bruit.

bruised

English

Verb

(head)

(bruise)

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

* * * English ergative verbs ----

bruited

English

Verb

(head)

(bruit)

bruit

English

Noun

(-)

(label) Rumour, talk, hearsay.

* 1590 , (William Shakespeare), , Act IV, Scene 7

Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand: / The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.

* 1607 , (William Shakespeare),

But yet I love my country, and am not / One that rejoices in the common wreck, / As common bruit doth put it.

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(label) An abnormal sound heard on auscultation. (French pronunciation)

Verb

(en verb)

(US, archaic British) to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.

* 1590 , Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the new found land of Virginia ,

There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.

* William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,

And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,

Re-speaking earthly thunder.

* 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld ,

Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him.

* {{quote-web, date=2010-08-04

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