[
UK
/bɹˈʌʃt/
]
[ US /ˈbɹəʃt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹəʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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touched lightly in passing; grazed against
of all the people brushed against in a normal day on a city street I remember not a one -
(of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing
a fleecy lining
napped fabrics
a dress of brushed cotton -
(of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush
with shining hair neatly brushed
the freshly brushed clothes hung in the closet
How To Use brushed In A Sentence
- But I needed to know who it was so I pulled out a comb and brushed my hair forward a little and put it to the side.
- You see them muttering together in corners, their skin grey and baggy and their unbrushed hair matted with Playdoh.
- He stood and brushed the crumbs of bread off of him, knowing well how difficult it would be to follow his own advice.
- She pushed the feeling away from her heart while she brushed Darren's fringe away from his eyes.
- Bamie brushed aside this cruel fate as if it were no more than a nuisance.
- Next, something brushed past him, and he encountered it with a snarl and a splashing of his forepaws. CHAPTER XX
- I don't think I can compete with your stained and unbrushed teeth in the turn-offs department.
- He brushed the dirt off his coat cursing the whole evening, mainly for the damage it had done to his good coat.
- But, soundly as Tom Tallington slept, the scriggly legs of a beetle were rather too much when they began to work in his ear, and he started up and brushed the creature away, the investigating insect falling on the floor with a sharp rap. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp
- The afternoon sunset had tinted the white clouds and blue sky into subtle, mellow shades and the fresh, wet winds brushed our faces as we were transported to the tideland in an ox cart.
