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    BRUSH ASIDE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Bar from attention or considerationplay

    Example:

    She dismissed his advances

    Synonyms:

    brush aside; brush off; discount; dismiss; disregard; ignore; push aside

    Classified under:

    Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

    Hypernyms (to "brush aside" is one way to...):

    reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "brush aside"):

    cold-shoulder; slight (pay no attention to, disrespect)

    discredit (cause to be distrusted or disbelieved)

    shrug off (minimize the importance of, brush aside)

    pass off (disregard)

    flout; scoff (treat with contemptuous disregard)

    turn a blind eye (refuse to acknowledge)

    laugh away; laugh off (deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it)

    disoblige (ignore someone's wishes)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody

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