brush
/bɹʌʃ/
noun15
verb6
forms
brushed · brusht · brushing · brushes · brusheth · brushest
Phrases with brush
- brush offTo disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant.
- broad-brushGeneral and sweeping in scope but lacking detail.
- brush asideTo disregard, dismiss or ignore something, as unimportant.
- brush backTo throw a brushback pitch at (a batter).
- brush byTo walk past another person, touching them slightly, normally by accident, and ignoring them.
- brush-downThe act of brushing down (a person, animal or object).
- brush outTo brush (someone's hair or an animal's fur) to remove tangles and give the hair a satisfactory texture.
- brush overTo barely cover a topic; to skim through or lightly touch on (something).
- brush pastTo go by (someone or something) quickly, making slight contact.
- brush upTo paint, or make clean or bright with a brush.
- brush up toTo flatter or suck up to someone
- give someone the brush-offTo rebuff, snub or curtly reject someone.
- live over the brushTo cohabit without being married.
- paint with a broad brushTo describe a class of objects or a kind of phenomenon in general terms, without specific details and without attention to individual variations.