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Brushing

noun

The act of brushing your teeth. Synonym: brush.

The act of brushing your hair. Synonym: brush.

Brush

verb

(past & past part. brushed; pres. part. brushing)

Rub with a brush, or as if with a brush.

Touch lightly and briefly.

Clean with a brush.

Sweep across or over. Synonym: sweep. "A gasp swept cross the audience"

Remove with or as if with a brush. "Brush the dust from the jacket" , "Brush aside the objections"

Cover by brushing.

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"Brushing" Quotes from Famous Books

... spirits and a great tide of life, sweeping all before him. An obscure Anglo-Indian journalist, the publication of his Barrack-room Ballads in 1892 brought him sudden notice. By 1895 he was internationally famous. Brushing over the pallid attempts to revive a pallid past, he rode triumphantly on a wave of buoyant and sometimes brutal joy in the present. Kipling gloried in the material world; he did more—he glorified it. He pierced the coarse exteriors of seemingly prosaic things—things like machinery, ...

— Modern British Poetry • Various

... door after you," or some legend pertaining to Brown's Soap or Robinson's Washing Powder. These are done by different processes, the transfer process, as used in the potteries, being employed, but the one most largely used is that of "brushing out," which is ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 • Various

... She had never imagined that he would come in this way, or that a hearth-brush would save her from the betrayal of emotion. So it was, however, and an involuntary smile passed over her face as she managed to say quite naturally, while brushing the nutshells tidily ...

— Moods • Louisa May Alcott

... people gleamed bright from the cheeriest corner. A fire crackled beneath the marble mantelshelf. The latest evening paper lay upon a chair; and, brushing it carelessly with her costly dress, the woman he had so basely deserted came smiling ...

— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke

... are brushing my coat again," said he one day, going into Karl's room. "You know I will not ...

— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag

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