Words that rhyme with bruised

• abused 0
  adj 1: used improperly or excessively especially drugs; "an abused substance" 2: subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife" [syn: abused, ill-treated, maltreated, mistreated] [ant: unabused]
• accused 0
  n 1: a defendant in a criminal proceeding
• amused 0
  adj 1: pleasantly occupied; "We are not amused" -Queen Victoria [syn: amused, diverted, entertained]
• bemused 0
  adj 1: deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown" [syn: bemused, deep in thought(p), lost(p), preoccupied] 2: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school" [syn: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea]
• boost 0
  n 1: the act of giving hope or support to someone [syn: boost, encouragement] 2: an increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates" [syn: rise, boost, hike, cost increase] 3: the act of giving a push; "he gave her a boost over the fence" v 1: increase; "The landlord hiked up the rents" [syn: hike, hike up, boost] 2: give a boost to; be beneficial to; "The tax cut will boost the economy" 3: contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom" [syn: promote, advance, boost, further, encourage] 4: increase or raise; "boost the voltage in an electrical circuit" [syn: boost, advance, supercharge] 5: push or shove upward, as if from below or behind; "The singer had to be boosted onto the stage by a special contraption"
• confused 0
  adj 1: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school" [syn: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea] 2: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected] 3: having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented" [syn: confused, disoriented, lost] 4: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn: broken, confused, disordered, upset] 5: mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused" [ant: clear-thinking, clearheaded]
• deuced 0
  adj 1: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]
• diffused 0
  adj 1: (of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material; "diffused light" 2: (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected [syn: soft, diffuse, diffused] [ant: concentrated, hard]
• excused 0
  adj 1: granted exemption; "one of the excused jurors planned to write a book"
• fused 0
  adj 1: joined together into a whole; "United Industries"; "the amalgamated colleges constituted a university"; "a consolidated school" [syn: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused]
• langouste 0
  n 1: warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crayfish] 2: large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters [syn: spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish]
• misused 0
  adj 1: used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose; "misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents" [ant: used]
• roost 0
  n 1: a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds 2: a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep v 1: sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the tree" [syn: perch, roost, rest] 2: settle down or stay, as if on a roost
• unused 0
  adj 1: not yet used or soiled; "a fresh shirt"; "a fresh sheet of paper"; "an unused envelope" [syn: fresh, unused] 2: not yet put into use; "we bought an unused car for a change" 3: not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands" [syn: idle, unused] 4: infrequently exposed to; "feet unused to shoes"
• used 0
  adj 1: employed in accomplishing something; "the principle of surprise is the most used and misused of all the principles of war"- H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker [ant: misused] 2: of persons; taken advantage of; "after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used" [syn: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimized, victimised] 3: previously used or owned by another; "bought a secondhand (or used) car" [syn: secondhand, used]
• soused 0
  adj 1: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet]
• disabused 0
  adj 1: freed of a mistaken or misguided notion; "some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth" [syn: disabused(p), undeceived]
• proust 0
  n 1: French novelist (1871-1922) [syn: Proust, Marcel Proust]
• cruised 0
• defused 0
• enthused 0
• infused 0
• mused 0
• oozed 0
• perused 0
• refused 0
• reused 0
• suffused 0
• transfused 0
• underused 0
• rused 0
• recused 0
• overused 0
• unbruised 0

See also bruised synonyms