The word "bruise" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a mark on a person's skin created when they are hit or injured. For example: "Steve fell down the stairs and got a nasty bruise on his arm."
When the Serb beat the Spaniard 7-5, 6-1, 6-1 in less than two and a half hours on a warm, still afternoon in front of an awe-struck audience on Court Philippe Chatrier, to advance to the semi-finals against Andy Murray on Friday, he not only tore up the record books, he left a considerable psychic bruise on the outgoing champion.
The bruise is just one of many such hidden injuries inflicted by her long-term boyfriend Reece, the father of their child.
Mertesacker sports a pale yellow bruise to his left temple, the legacy of a stray elbow from the goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny on the training ground and the buffeting, whether physical or mental, has come to feel relentless.
Dan Biggar filled the vacuum, his hold on the game slackened only slightly – and slightly weirdly – by the knee to Rhys Webb's derriere, the bruise that meant his scrum-half partner was not able to offer him the breathing space that comes with an alternative threat.
The latest old-timer to come up rubbing a bruise is Lego.Lego, a Danish firm, has built a range of businesses that includes theme parks and children's clothing around its core product, construction kits of little plastic bricks.
Mr Bush fainted and collapsed but later resumed a tour of the country with no apparent ill effects apart from a large bruise on his cheek.Zone of uncertaintyColombia's peace process limped on.
At the party, noticing Sontag's bruise, Allen Ginsberg asked Zwerling, "Why'd you hit her, she's younger and prettier than you".
One who turned up said he received a bruise on his backside and spent four days in hospital.
Thinking it a mere bruise, the chancellor flew back to Berlin to give her new-year address.
Disputes over headscarves and mosques bruise Muslim feelings as often in Germany as elsewhere in Europe (minarets should not "ostentatiously" overshadow church spires, Ms Merkel has said).
The other is that it makes the West look hypocritical: all too willing to bruise Muslim feelings, while protecting Jewish ones by law.Laws against holocaust denial (which 14 countries have) were never a good idea.
