Words similar to bruising

Example sentences for: bruising

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Details of the alleged encounter echo the ones revealed on the op-ed page of Friday's Wall Street Journal : then-gubernatorial candidate Clinton invited an innocent Broaddrick to have coffee in his hotel room, and then forced himself on her, biting and bruising her lips.
The covers of Time and Newsweek feature tell-alls by Clinton insiders about their bruising stints in the White House.
After the bruising Kennedy-Carter convention fight in 1980, the National Organization for Women refused to endorse Jimmy Carter--over Ronald Reagan!