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BRUISE
Definition of BRUISE
verb
To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it; to contuse.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English bruisen, brusen, brosen, brisen, bresen, from a merger two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”): 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”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRUISE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BRUISE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEIRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BRUISE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found BRUISE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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