"bruise up" meaning in English

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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bruising up",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bruised up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bruised up",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "glosses": [
        "To cause bruises to appear, usually by beating or battering."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause bruises to appear, usually by beating or battering."
      ],
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      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, William Ian Miller, “The Law of Conservation of Good Things”, in Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 34:",
          "text": "Instead, we must find an unworthy substitute for the defeat of a foe in that small grin we quickly suppress when we learn that a beheadphoned texter got hit by a car—no, not seriously injured, just bruised up enough to give him a wake-up call.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To show or get bruises."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To show or get bruises."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bruise up"
}

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      "form": "bruises up",
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        "singular",
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    {
      "form": "bruising up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bruised up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bruised up",
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      "glosses": [
        "To cause bruises to appear, usually by beating or battering."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To cause bruises to appear, usually by beating or battering."
      ],
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          "ref": "2021, William Ian Miller, “The Law of Conservation of Good Things”, in Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 34:",
          "text": "Instead, we must find an unworthy substitute for the defeat of a foe in that small grin we quickly suppress when we learn that a beheadphoned texter got hit by a car—no, not seriously injured, just bruised up enough to give him a wake-up call.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To show or get bruises."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To show or get bruises."
      ],
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    }
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