Meaning

2 senses
  1. That bruises.

  2. Wearisome, arduous.

More definitions
  • brutally forceful and compelling
  • causing mental or emotional injury

Origin

From bruise + -ing.

From bruise + -ing.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

more bruising, most bruising
Comparativemore bruising Lesson
Superlativemost bruising Lesson

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbruisingly

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bruising — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto