The story
- Old English · inherited fromtōbrȳsan“to bruise, crush, shatter”
- Middle English · inherited fromtobrusen
- English todaytobruise
From Middle English tobrusen, tobrisen, from Old English tōbrȳsan (“to bruise, crush, shatter”), equivalent to to- + bruise.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.