bruise

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of (part of the body) without breaking the skin, as by a blow.
2. v. To damage (plant tissue), as by abrasion or pressure: bruised the fruit by careless packing.
3. v. To dent or mar.
4. v. To pound (berries, for example) into fragments; crush.
5. v. To hurt, especially psychologically.
6. v. To experience or undergo bruising: Peaches bruise easily.
7. n. An injury to underlying tissues or bone in which the skin is not broken, often characterized by ruptured blood vessels and discolorations.
8. n. A similar injury to plant tissue, often resulting in discoloration or spoilage.
9. n. An injury, especially to one's feelings.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To injure by a blow or by pressure without laceration; contuse, as a pliant substance; dent or beat in without breaking, as anything hard: as, to bruise the hand; a bruised apple; “his bruised shield,”
2. To crush by beating or pounding; pound; bray, as drugs or articles of food.
3. Figuratively, to beat down or oppress; cudgel, as the brain; scourge; damage.
4. To fight with the fists; box.
5. n. A contusion; a superficial injury caused by impact, without laceration, as of an animal body, a plant, or other impressible object.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive 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.
2. v. transitive To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
3. v. intransitive Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
4. v. intransitive, medicine To bruise easily.
5. n. medicine A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
6. n. A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse.
2. v. To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
3. v. To fight with the fists; to box.
4. n. An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
2. v. injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
3. v. break up into small pieces for food preparation
4. v. damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure
5. v. hurt the feelings of