bruise
n. countablen. a dark mark on your skin that appears after you get hit or fall down. It usually changes color from purple to yellow as it heals.
n. an injury appearing as an area of discoloured skin on the body, caused by a blow or impact rupturing underlying blood vessels.
I have a large bruise on my leg from the fall.
The doctor checked the dark bruise on the patient's arm to ensure no bones were broken during the accident.
While the physical bruise faded within a fortnight, the psychological impact of the collision lingered much longer, manifesting as a newfound hesitation whenever she approached a busy intersection.
From Middle English bruisen, brusen, brosen, brisen, bresen, from a merger two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”): Old English brȳsan, brīesan (“to bruise; crush”), from Proto-Germanic brausijaną, *brūsijaną (“to break; crumble; crack”). Provided the word's sense. Anglo-Norman bruiser, bruser (“to break, smash, shatter”), from Gaulish brus-, from Proto-Celtic *bruseti (“to break”). Provided the word's form. Cognate with Scots brizz, German brausen (“to roar; boom; pound”), Old English brosnian (“to crumble, fall apart”), Dutch broos (“brittle”), German Brosame (“crumb”), dialectal Norwegian brøysk (“breakable”), Latin frustum (“bit, scrap”), Old Church Slavonic бръснути (brŭsnuti, “to rake”), Albanian breshër (“hail”).
Often used with the verbs 'get', 'have', or 'leave'.