Crossword-Solution: BRUISING 8 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Bruising p. pr. & vb. n. of Bruise

We have 38 clues for the answer “BRUISING”

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causing bruises, as by a blow 1 answer
Very rough, as an experience 1 answer
Fruit-packing worry 1 answer
Emotionally hurtful 1 answer
FRACTURE symptom 8 answers
BRIEFLY HURTFUL ARGUMENT CAUSING GRIEF 10 answers
CAUSING MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL INJURY 11 answers
torturing 40 answers
excruciating 40 answers
Struggling 40 answers
racking 40 answers
disquieting 42 answers
agonising 43 answers
Tearing 45 answers
Harrowing 47 answers
saddening 48 answers
worrying 48 answers
gruelling 49 answers
crushing 51 answers
disheartening 52 answers
Aching 52 answers
aggravating 52 answers
disturbing 55 answers
provoking 57 answers
Throbbing 57 answers
arduous 59 answers
dying 61 answers
Laborious 63 answers
Painful 65 answers
tortuous 67 answers
Hurting 67 answers
tormenting 68 answers
worrisome 71 answers
Burning 72 answers
distressing 77 answers
Depressing 79 answers
discouraging 79 answers
hurtful 79 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BRUISING (5)

With nervous, trembling fingers Marguerite undid the bolts one by one, bruising her hands, hurting her nails, for the locks were heavy and stiff.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Even in our own days, when morals are better understood, an execution, a bruising match, a riot, or a meeting of radical reformers, collects, at considerable hazard to themselves, immense crowds of spectators, otherwise little interested, except to see how matters are to be conducted, or whether the heroes of the day are, in the heroic language of insurgent tailors, flints or dunghills.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
They not only stripped him of his clothes, but gave him a coat of mud, with a severe bruising into the bargain.
Good Stories For Great Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1995
While capable of forging an Armstrong hundred-pounder, or the sheet-anchor for a ship of the line, it could hammer a nail, or crack a nut without bruising the kernel.
Industrial Biography Samuel Smiles 2008
Let Dissenters, whether they be Church of England, as perhaps they may still call themselves, Methodist, or Presbyterian, presume to grumble, and there shall be bruising of lips in pulpits, tying up to whipping-posts, cutting off ears and noses--he! he! the farce of King Log has been acted long enough; the time for Queen Stork's tragedy is drawing nigh'; and the man in black sipped his gin and water in a very exulting manner.
Lavengro George Borrow 2006

Quotes with BRUISING (3)

And for a moment there, despite the bruising, despite the snarled dirty hair, despite her sunburned skin and the suffering in her eyes that she refused to let defeat her, she was one of the prettiest things he'd ever seen.~Dallas and Amy~
Cindy Gerard To the Brink
I began to reflect on Nature's eagerness to sow life everywhere, to fill the planet with it, to crowd with it the earth, the air, and the seas. Into every corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, Nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself. That immense, overwhelming, relentless, burning ardency of Nature for the stir of life! And all these her creatures, even as these thwarted lives, what travail, what hunger and cold, what bruising a…
Henry Beston The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (2003–2024).