brush
Meaning of brush
noun
- an implement with a handle and a block of bristles, hair, or wire, used especially for cleaning, applying a liquid or powder to a surface, or arranging the hair.
a shaving brush
- a light and fleeting touch.
the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek
- the bushy tail of a fox.
- a drumstick with long wire bristles, used to make a soft hissing sound on drums or cymbals.
- a piece of carbon or metal serving as an electrical contact with a moving part in a motor or alternator.
- women regarded sexually.
‘Beer first, brush later.’
- remove (dust or dirt) by sweeping or scrubbing.
we'll be able to brush the mud off easily
- touch something lightly and gently.
their fingers brushed as she took the glass from him
as I swim in the lagoon I feel fish brush up against my legs
stems of grass brush against her legs
his lips brushed her cheek
Middle English: noun from Old French broisse ; verb partly from Old French brosser ‘to sweep’.
noun
undergrowth, small trees, and shrubs.
Middle English: from Old French broce, perhaps based on Latin bruscum, denoting an excrescence on a maple.
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Hyphenation of brush
brush
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- brush is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
brush synonyms
Meaning brushwood:
brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
Meaning clash:
Meaning brushing:
Meaning sweep:
Meaning a long-handled brush of bristles or twigs, used for sweeping:
Meaning a person or device that cleans a floor or road by sweeping:
Meaning a broom made of twigs tied round a stick:
Meaning a utensil for whipping eggs or cream:
Meaning a brush for smoothing a person's hair:
Meaning a small brush with a long handle, used for cleaning the teeth:
Meaning a brush for applying paint:
Meaning an act of touching someone or something:
Meaning an act of hitting or striking someone or something; a blow:
Meaning a thin layer of a substance on the surface of a liquid:
Meaning (of cattle, sheep, etc.) eat grass in a field:
Meaning a brief or hurried look:
Meaning an act of rubbing:
Meaning an act of shaving hair from the face or a part of the body:
Meaning a quick, light touch with the hand:
Meaning a light touch or push:
Meaning the state of physical touching:
Meaning a touch or caress with the lips:
Meaning a sweeping blow:
Meaning the hindmost part of an animal, especially when prolonged beyond the rest of the body, such as the flexible extension of the backbone in a vertebrate, the feathers at the hind end of a bird, or a term:
Meaning a part added to the end of a story or piece of writing:
Meaning the short tail of a hare, rabbit, or deer:
Meaning an enclosed area of water in a port for the loading, unloading, and repair of ships:
Meaning touch or stroke gently or lovingly:
Meaning strike or propel (something) with a sudden quick movement of the fingers:
Meaning drag or pull a hard or sharp implement across (a surface or object) so as to remove dirt or other matter:
Meaning a dense growth of shrubs and other plants, especially under trees in woodland:
Meaning small trees and shrubs growing beneath taller timber trees:
Meaning an act of scrubbing something or someone:
Meaning land consisting of scrub vegetation:
Meaning a tall fern with coarse lobed fronds, which occurs worldwide and can cover large areas:
Meaning a shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length:
Meaning the hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub, used for fuel or timber:
Meaning shrubs and small trees forming the undergrowth in a forest:
Meaning vegetation consisting chiefly of tangled shrubs and thorny bushes:
Meaning a mass of trees or shrubs:
Translation of brush
- Spanish: carbón, escobilla, brocha, pincel, cepillo, cepillar, barrer, rozar, recoger, escobar, escobillar
- German: Bürste, Pinsel, putzen, kehren, bürsten
- French: balai, pinceau, brosse, brosser, balayer
- Portuguese: escova, pincel, escovar
- Italian: spazzola, pennello, spazzolare, spazzare
Anagrams of brush
Words that rhyme with brush
Rush, rush, Brush, HydroBrush, airbrush, badgerbrush, bebrush, bitterbrush, blackbrush, bottlebrush, broadbrush, buckbrush, burrobrush, clothesbrush, clubrush, cytobrush, drybrush, fleshbrush, flybrush, goatbrush, hairbrush, hatbrush, kneebrush, lampbrush, nailbrush, overbrush, paintbrush, rabbitbrush, rebrush, redbrush, rockbrush, sagebrush, saltbrush, scratchbrush, shoebrush, snowbrush, stovebrush, tarbrush, teethbrush, toothbrush, underbrush, becrush, crush, mollicrush, recrush, scrush, toadrush, woodrush, frush, grush
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