tobruise

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verb

To bruise up, completely beat or batter; crush; to make numb.

OriginMiddle English tobrusen ← Old English tōbrȳsan →
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Meanings

verbtobruise (third-person singular simple present tobruises, present participle tobruising, simple past and past participle tobruised)

present singular third person tobruises · participle present tobruising · participle past tobruised · past tobruised

  1. archaicTo bruise up, completely beat or batter; crush; to make numb.

    Onely his shield and armour, which there lay, / Though nothing whole, but all tobrusd and broken, [...]

    1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
    1 more example

    Then he brought the monk all tobruised in a sack to S. Benedict, and anon S. Benedict made upon him the sign of the cross, and blessed him and raised him to life, and sent him to the work again.

    1910, Edward Hutton, Siena and southern Tuscany

Origin

  1. Old Englishtōbrȳsan“to bruise, crush, shatter”
  2. Middle Englishtobrusen
  3. Englishtobruise

From Middle English tobrusen, tobrisen, from Old English tōbrȳsan (“to bruise, crush, shatter”), equivalent to to- + bruise.

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APA

tobruise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tobruise

MLA

“tobruise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tobruise. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tobruise,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tobruise.

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