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Etymology

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From bruise +‎ -able.

Adjective

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bruisable (comparative more bruisable, superlative most bruisable)

  1. Susceptible to bruising; capable of being bruised.
    • 2002, Sarah Waters, chapter 10, in Fingersmith, London: Virago, →ISBN, part 2, page 285:
      She will go, and I shall be left—to my uncle, to the books, to Mrs Stiles, to some new meek and bruisable girl . . .

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