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brushed

brushed

3.4
Touched lightly while passing by
  • adjective
  • /brʌʃt/
translation icon : rozado
  • As he passed by, his shoulder brushed lightly against mine.

Examples

  • A soft invisible hand brushed her cheek in answer.

  • The cat brushed against my leg as it strolled through the room.

  • So the white model here, I kind of like this brushed look to it.

  • I went and rimmed around your eyes with a black eyeliner pencil brushed in black into your beard.

  • NVIDIA clearly loves brushed aluminum and like, that's cool, that's cool.

  • They were these like old fashioned silver handles, but we've gone for these like black brushed Chrome handles, which look really good.

  • That's our Braille and brushed poetic prosaics are shedding sheds the portrait in the sharding of the mirror.

  • A soft breeze lightly brushed her hair as she walked through the garden.

Synonyms

to touch
vsbrushed
1.0

To put your hand or body on something to feel it

focuses only on light, brief contact in passing
to brush
vsbrushed
133 1.6

To touch something lightly while passing by

is the same action described as a quick, slight contact in passing
to brush against
vsbrushed
15 3.1

To touch something lightly while passing by

is a brief, light grazing contact in passing
touched
vsbrushed
1.0

Handled before by someone so it is not completely new

is specifically a light, brief contact while moving past

How Hard

to hit
1.0
to rub
600 1.0
brushed
3.4
to touch
1.0

Surface Forms

brushed positive

Morphology

brushed = brush (transparent) = brush + ed

Clearly formed from the verb 'brush' + '-ed', meaning 'was brushed against' or 'grazed'.

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.