bruisable

adj

bruisable

adj

Etymology From bruise + -able.

1

Susceptible to bruising; capable of being bruised.

  • She will go, and I shall be left—to my uncle, to the books, to Mrs Stiles, to some new meek and bruisable girl . . .2002, Sarah Waters, chapter 10, in Fingersmith, London: Virago, →ISBN, part 2, page 285:
Derived terms
bruisably, unbruisable

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