brushed
- adjective
- /brʌʃt/
- As he passed by, his shoulder brushed lightly against mine.
Examples
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A soft invisible hand brushed her cheek in answer.
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The cat brushed against my leg as it strolled through the room.
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So the white model here, I kind of like this brushed look to it.
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I went and rimmed around your eyes with a black eyeliner pencil brushed in black into your beard.
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NVIDIA clearly loves brushed aluminum and like, that's cool, that's cool.
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They were these like old fashioned silver handles, but we've gone for these like black brushed Chrome handles, which look really good.
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That's our Braille and brushed poetic prosaics are shedding sheds the portrait in the sharding of the mirror.
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A soft breeze lightly brushed her hair as she walked through the garden.
Synonyms
To put your hand or body on something to feel it
To touch something lightly while passing by
To touch something lightly while passing by
Handled before by someone so it is not completely new
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Etymology
Brushed comes from the verb brush, which can mean 'to touch lightly' or 'to pass by'. So if a leaf or hand 'brushed' your cheek, it only touched you for a moment, which is why we use brushed for a light, quick touch.