Brush | Mean of brush in English Dictionary

/ˈbrʌʃ/

• Noun
• a tool with many stiff hairs, fibers, etc., that is used for cleaning, smoothing, or painting something
1. Use a wire brush to get the rust off the metal.
• an act of cleaning or smoothing something with a brush
1. I gave my daughter's hair a quick brush.
• a quick, light movement
1. She wiped the crumbs off the table with a brush of her hand.
• Verb

• to clean or smooth (something) with a brush
1. brush your teeth/hair
• to put (something) on or onto something with a brush
1. Brush some butter onto the fish before cooking it.
• to remove (something) with a brush or with a quick movement of your hand, fingers, etc.
1. Brush the dirt off your pants.
2. The camera showed him brushing [=wiping] away a tear.
• to touch gently against (something) when going past it
1. Leaves brushed my cheek.
2. The two men brushed shoulders [=touched at the shoulders] as they walked past each other.
• to move quickly past someone without stopping or paying attention
1. The governor brushed by/past the reporters.
• to treat (something) as not important
1. He brushed aside [=brushed off] questions about his son's arrest.
• to respond to (someone) in a rude way that shows you are not interested in what is being asked for or suggested
1. I asked him for some help, but he just brushed me off.
• to improve your skill at (something) or increase your knowledge of (something)
1. My Spanish is very rusty. I need to brush up before I go on my vacation to Mexico.
2. I need to brush up my Spanish.
3. I need to brush up on my Spanish.
• Noun
• a situation in which you briefly experience or almost experience something bad, dangerous, exciting, etc.
1. As a teenager he had several brushes with the law. [=was in trouble with police several times]
2. She had a brush with [=briefly saw or met] a famous actor at a restaurant in New York.
3. Her brush with fame/greatness came when she sang the national anthem at the football game.
4. He had a brush with death [=he almost died] when climbing the mountain.
• wood from small branches on a tree
1. a pile of brush
• small bushes or trees
1. a hillside covered with dense brush
2. a lion hiding in the brush