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BRUSHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing
Example:
napped fabrics
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush
Example:
the freshly brushed clothes hung in the closet
Classified under:
Similar:
groomed (neat and smart in appearance; well cared for)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Touched lightly in passing; grazed against
Example:
of all the people brushed against in a normal day on a city street I remember not a one
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
touched (having come into contact)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb brush
Context examples:
If this is my last kick, it shall at least be with a well-brushed boot.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hans brushed his coat, wiped his face and hands, rested a while, and then drove off his cow quietly, and thought his bargain a very lucky one.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
One of them brushed against him and apparently for the first time noticed him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He seized my hand in the darkness and led me swiftly past banks of shrubs which brushed against our faces.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The huge body, the craggy and deeply seamed face with the fierce eyes and hawk-like nose, the grizzled hair which nearly brushed our cottage ceiling, the beard—golden at the fringes and white near the lips, save for the nicotine stain from his perpetual cigar—all these were as well known in London as in Africa, and could only be associated with the tremendous personality of Dr. Leon Sterndale, the great lion-hunter and explorer.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However, when I had brushed my hair very smooth, and put on my black frock—which, Quakerlike as it was, at least had the merit of fitting to a nicety—and adjusted my clean white tucker, I thought I should do respectably enough to appear before Mrs. Fairfax, and that my new pupil would not at least recoil from me with antipathy.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He shook the snow from his hat and clothes, and brushed it away from his face, while I was inwardly making these remarks.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She brushed her hand across her forehead in a puzzled way, saying, “Still I do not understand.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Two others, flying together, tore a great gap in the St. Christopher upon the sail, and brushed three of Sir Oliver's men-at-arms from the forecastle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Once, and twice, he sleepily brushed his nose with his paw.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
