Antonyms for brush
brʌʃbrush

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1. brush

   To clean is to make clean by removing dirt, impurities, or soil of any kind. Cleanse implies a worse condition to start from, and more to do, than clean. Hercules cleansed the Augean stables. Cleanse is especially applied to purifying processes where liquid is used, as in the flushing of a street, etc. We brush clothing if dusty, sponge it, or sponge it off, if soiled; or sponge off a spot. Furniture, books, etc., are dusted; floors are mopped or scrubbed; metallic utensils are scoured; a room is swept; soiled garments are washed; foul air or water is purified. Cleanse and purify are used extensively in a moral sense; wash in that sense is archaic. Compare AMEND.

   Antonyms:
   befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, corrupt, debase, defile, deprave, pollute, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, vitiate

   Synonyms:
   clean, cleanse, disinfect, dust, lave, mop, purify, rinse, scour, scrub, sponge, sweep, wash, wipe

   Preposition:
   Cleanse of or from physical or moral defilement; cleanse with an instrument; by an agent; the room was cleansed by the attendants with soap and water.

Matched Categories

1. • Clean
   • Cover
   • Dental Care
   • Electrical Device
   • Fight
   • Hair Care
   • Implement
   • Move
   • Remove
   • Rub
   • Tail
   • Touch

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1. brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicketnoun

   a dense growth of bushes

   Synonyms:
   copse, coppice, encounter, brushing, thicket, skirmish, brushwood, light touch, clash

2. brushnoun

   an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

   Synonyms:
   copse, coppice, encounter, brushing, thicket, skirmish, brushwood, light touch, clash

3. brush, light touchnoun

   momentary contact

   Synonyms:
   copse, coppice, encounter, brushing, thicket, skirmish, brushwood, light touch, clash

4. brushnoun

   conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

   Synonyms:
   copse, coppice, encounter, brushing, thicket, skirmish, brushwood, light touch, clash

5. brushnoun

   a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)

   Synonyms:
   copse, coppice, encounter, brushing, thicket, skirmish, brushwood, light touch, clash

6. brush, clash, encounter, skirmishnoun

   a minor short-term fight

   Synonyms:
   brushing, face-off, clangor, coming upon, clang, clash, brushwood, encounter, skirmish, clank, confrontation, clangour, copse, meeting, thicket, showdown, friction, crash, coppice, clangoring, light touch

7. brush, brushingnoun

   the act of brushing your teeth

   "the dentist recommended two brushes a day"

   Synonyms:
   copse, coppice, encounter, brushing, thicket, skirmish, brushwood, light touch, clash

8. brush, brushingnoun

   the act of brushing your hair

   "he gave his hair a quick brush"

   Synonyms:
   copse, coppice, encounter, brushing, thicket, skirmish, brushwood, light touch, clash

9. brushverb

   contact with something dangerous or undesirable

   "I had a brush with danger on my way to work"; "he tried to avoid any brushes with the police"

   Synonyms:
   copse, coppice, encounter, brushing, thicket, skirmish, brushwood, light touch, clash

10. brushverb

    rub with a brush, or as if with a brush

    "Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket"

    Synonyms:
    sweep

11. brushverb

    touch lightly and briefly

    "He brushed the wall lightly"

    Synonyms:
    sweep

12. brushverb

    clean with a brush

    "She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet"

    Synonyms:
    sweep

13. brush, sweepverb

    sweep across or over

    "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience"

    Synonyms:
    span, traverse, sweep, drag, embroil, sail, sweep up, tangle, swing out, swing, cross, drag in, broom

14. brushverb

    remove with or as if with a brush

    "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections"

    Synonyms:
    sweep

15. brushverb

    cover by brushing

    "brush the bread with melted butter"

    Synonyms:
    sweep

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1. brushnoun

   Synonyms:
   brushwood, thicket, underbrush, grazing

How to use brush in a sentence?

1. Christy Brinkley:

   I’ve always found him smarmy, as in, ‘Watch out, part the waves, the rich people are coming, everything is gold, solid 24-carat gold, the best, the greatest, nobody else has more gold on anything in their house than me. Did you bring a brush? Let’s gold-leaf it!’.

2. The IAAF:

   I contacted them earlier this year about the case of some Russian walkers that were competing while they were banned. . Tallent wants drug cheats named and shamed, worrying that if they go unpunished, clean competitors could unfairly be tarred with the same brush.

3. Richard Doucette:

   If you grill a lot, you should inspect your brush often, very carefully, grab some of the bristles and give them a tug to see if any pull out easily. If they can, it’s time for a new brush.

4. Scott Swartzwelder:

   So you might bump into the table and just brush it off.

5. Robert Schapiro:

   There have been efforts before to have states call for a constitutional convention. And with regard to certain issues, states have come fairly close, but, given the divided times which we face, and given the broad brush of these amendments, I think it’s unlikely to garner the kind of support that would be necessary actually to reach that two-thirds benchmark.

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