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Exact Match:

brush

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"

the act of brushing your hair; "he gave his hair a quick brush"

the act of brushing your teeth; "the dentist recommended two brushes a day"

a minor short-term fight

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

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

momentary contact

a dense growth of bushes

remove with or as if with a brush; "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections"

touch lightly and briefly; "He brushed the wall lightly"

rub with a brush, or as if with a brush; "Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket"

clean with a brush; "She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet"

cover by brushing; "brush the bread with melted butter"

sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience"

Synonyms:

• Arabia Deserta,
• Death Valley,
• Sahara,
• action,
• aerial combat,
• affray,
• air brush,
• air-dry,
• anhydrate,
• armored combat,
• art paper,
• attouchement,
• back country,
• backlog,
• backwoods,
• bake,
• ball the jack,
• barrel,
• barren,
• barren land,
• barrens,
• battle,
• battle royal,
• bavin,
• beak,
• bed,
• bed down,
• besom,
• blot,
• boom,
• boondock,
• boondocks,
• borderland,
• boscage,
• bowl along,
• bracken,
• brake,
• break,
• breath,
• breeze,
• breeze along,
• bridle,
• broom,
• brush,
• brush by,
• brush off,
• brush-off,
• brushwood,
• bullfight,
• bump,
• bunt,
• burn,
• bush,
• bush country,
• bushveld,
• camera lucida,
• camera obscura,
• canvas,
• caress,
• cauda,
• caudal appendage,
• caudation,
• chalk,
• charcoal,
• chuck,
• clash,
• clash of arms,
• clean,
• clip,
• cockfight,
• collide,
• combat,
• come in contact,
• con,
• conflict,
• contact,
• contingence,
• copse,
• crayon,
• cue,
• cure,
• curry,
• currycomb,
• cut along,
• cutaneous sense,
• dab,
• dehumidify,
• dehydrate,
• desert,
• desiccate,
• desolation,
• dismiss,
• disregard,
• dock,
• dogfight,
• drain,
• drawing paper,
• drawing pencil,
• drench,
• drier,
• dry,
• dust bowl,
• easel,
• embroilment,
• encounter,
• engagement,
• evaporate,
• exchange of blows,
• exsiccate,
• fagot,
• fantail,
• feed,
• feel,
• feeling,
• fight,
• fillip,
• fingertip caress,
• fire,
• fire fight,
• firewood,
• fixative,
• fleet,
• flick,
• flip,
• flirt,
• flit,
• fly,
• fly low,
• fodder,
• foot,
• forests,
• fray,
• frontier,
• gather,
• gentle,
• glance,
• go fast,
• go over,
• graze,
• groom,
• ground,
• ground combat,
• grove,
• hairbrush,
• hand-mindedness,
• hand-to-hand combat,
• hand-to-hand fight,
• handle,
• harness,
• heath,
• highball,
• hinterland,
• hit,
• hitch,
• house-to-house combat,
• howling wilderness,
• ignore,
• impinge,
• impingement,
• impingence,
• insolate,
• karroo,
• kiln,
• kindling,
• kindlings,
• kiss,
• lambency,
• lap,
• lay figure,
• lick,
• light touch,
• litter,
• log,
• lunar landscape,
• lunar waste,
• make knots,
• manage,
• maulstick,
• medium,
• melee,
• milk,
• mummify,
• naval combat,
• nip,
• nudge,
• osculate,
• osculation,
• outback,
• outpost,
• outstrip the wind,
• paint,
• paintbrush,
• palette,
• palette knife,
• parch,
• passage of arms,
• pastel,
• pat,
• peck,
• pencil,
• pick,
• pigments,
• pigtail,
• pile,
• pitched battle,
• pour it on,
• put aside,
• quarrel,
• queue,
• rap,
• rattail,
• rebuff,
• refresh,
• restudy,
• review,
• rip,
• rub,
• rub down,
• rumble,
• run-in,
• running fight,
• saddle,
• salt flat,
• scorch,
• scramble,
• scrape,
• scratchboard,
• scrimmage,
• scrub,
• scrubwood,
• scuffle,
• sear,
• sense of touch,
• set-to,
• shave,
• shoving match,
• shrivel,
• shrubwood,
• shrug off,
• siccative,
• sideswipe,
• sizzle,
• sketchbook,
• sketchpad,
• skim,
• skirmish,
• skirt,
• smoke,
• snap,
• soak up,
• spatula,
• speed,
• sponge,
• spray gun,
• squeak by,
• stand-up fight,
• storm along,
• stovewood,
• street fight,
• stroke,
• struggle,
• stub,
• study,
• stump,
• sun,
• sun-dry,
• swab,
• sweep,
• sweep out,
• sweep up,
• tactile sense,
• taction,
• tail,
• tailpiece,
• tame,
• tangency,
• tap,
• tauromachy,
• tear,
• tear along,
• tend,
• tentative contact,
• tentative poke,
• the bush,
• thicket,
• thunder along,
• tickle,
• timbers,
• tip,
• toothbrush,
• torrefy,
• touch,
• touch lightly,
• touch upon,
• touching,
• towel,
• train,
• tug-of-war,
• tussle,
• underbrush,
• undergrowth,
• underwood,
• uninhabited region,
• up-country,
• vacuum,
• vacuum-clean,
• varnish,
• virgin land,
• virgin territory,
• waste,
• wasteland,
• water,
• weary waste,
• weazen,
• whisk,
• whisper,
• whiz,
• wild,
• wild West,
• wilderness,
• wilds,
• wipe,
• wither,
• wizen,
• wood,
• woodlands,
• woods,
• yoke,
• yule clog,
• yule log,
• zing,
• zip,
• zoom