A device consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, or painting.
The act of using this device.
A light touch in passing; a graze.
An instance of contact with something undesirable or dangerous: a brush with the law; a brush with death.
A bushy tail: the brush of a fox.
A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.
A snub; a brushoff.
v.
brushed, brush·ing, brush·es
v.
tr.
To clean, polish, or groom with a brush.
To apply with or as if with motions of a brush.
To remove with or as if with motions of a brush.
To dismiss abruptly or curtly: brushed the matter aside; brushed an old friend off.
To touch lightly in passing; graze against.
v.
intr.
To use or apply a brush.
To move past something so as to touch it lightly.
Phrasal Verb(s): brush back Baseball To force (a batter) to move away from the plate by throwing an inside pitch. brush up
To refresh one's memory.
To renew a skill.
[Middle English brusshe, from Old French brosse, brushwood, brush; see brush2.] brush'er n., brush'y adj.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to make light contact with something in passing: Her arm brushed mine. I flicked the paper with my finger. The arrow glanced off the tree. The knife blade grazed the countertop. A taxi shaved the curb. The oar skims the pond's surface.
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