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black and blue
noun as in hurt
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The west, half-way to the zenith, was green—the black-and-blue green of bruised flesh.
There was a long scratch on one calf and numerous black-and-blue spots around both knees.
These would explode, and I was twice hit by the bullets, which left a black-and-blue mark.
Always it landed on some tender portion of my anatomy, so that my average, written in black-and-blue spots, remained an even 1000.
Don't know exactly what it was, but I warrant I'll have a nice black-and-blue mark to show for it.
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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to black-and-blue, such as: black and blue, contused, and purple.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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