To harm or injure.
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 become bruised.
To fight with the fists; to box.
To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.
A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
to adulterate a drug for the purpose of increasing its bulk, and therefore its profit; to dilute, cut.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, on.