brush
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1.0
- noun
- /brʌʃ/
:
cepillado
- Give those teeth a brush.
- brush stroke
OK, so maybe I'll just give that a final brush over.
- OK, so maybe I'll just give that a final brush over.
Examples
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Make sure to grab a brush to clear the dust off the table.
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And when you finish with that, take this brush and brush them like this.
Fiction book (1993) -
Make sure you clean out your brush before you go back and forth.
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You then take the clean brush and you blend.
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Once you've taken your first pass, take a brush and brush the hair down.
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So she brushes with the stiff, strong brush, drawing it through her tangles with slow determination, welcoming pain.
Fiction book (1998) -
Then she eased herself back to the tiles, dipped the brush in the bucket, and began scrubbing again.
Fiction book (1994) -
After painting the fence, I used a brush to clean the excess paint from the edge.
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She gave her hair a quick brush to smooth it before heading out.
Synonyms
335
1.0
The act of removing dirt and dust from a place or object
64
1.0
A repeated movement across a surface, like with a cloth, to make it clean or shiny
27
1.1
A hard rubbing of a surface to clean it
21
1.0
Pulling a comb through hair to make it neat
18
1.0
An act of cleaning or drying a surface by rubbing it with a cloth
17
1.0
Cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap, and water to remove dirt
3
1.0
An action of cleaning a floor with a broom
3
1.0
To move a brush through hair to make it smooth
1
2.1
The act of making a surface smooth and shiny by rubbing it
1
4.1
Cleaning a surface by rubbing it hard with a brush and soap
1
4.1
Cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a cloth or mop
Idioms
- Informal
2
7.2
Describe people or things in very general ways that ignore important details
- Informal
1
8.7
Unfairly judge a whole group because of one person's actions
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.7
A brush with short, stiff hairs for cleaning or painting rough surfaces
- Specialized
1
7.0
A painting tool with soft sable hairs that makes fine, flexible points
- Specialized
1
5.1
A way of painting that uses very little paint to make a rough, scratchy texture
1
1.6
A small brush that you use to put cream or soap on your face before using a razor
- Specialized
A faint blue electric glow with many thin light rays that appears when high voltage makes a spark
- Australian
A small or medium animal like a kangaroo that lives in forests and thick bushes
- Australian
A large black bird that builds big nesting mounds in the woods of Australia and New Guinea
- Specialized
A medium to large butterfly with bright wings and small front legs not used for walking
- Specialized
A large animal with sharp spines and a brush of stiff hairs at the end of its tail
- Australian
A small animal from Australia and New Guinea that lives in trees and has a pouch and a bushy tail
- Specialized
A rodent with a brush of stiff, bead-like hairs at the tip of its tail
- US
A spreading evergreen shrub with small flowers that grows on dry hills in the southwestern United States
- US
A shrub with thin hairy branches and bright yellow flowers that smells nice and grows on western plains
- Specialized
A long thin paint brush used for painting very fine lines like the ropes on a ship
A tree from Mexico and Guatemala with dense hairy flowers that look like brushes at branch ends
How Vigorous
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word brush meaning the action of cleaning comes from using a brush tool to rub or polish something, so a 'brush' can be the act of cleaning or arranging with that tool.