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say it: bruhsh
brush is a noun and verb meaning "a dense growth of bushes". It carries 15 recorded senses.
an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
momentary contact
conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
a minor short-term fight
the act of brushing your teeth
“the dentist recommended two brushes a day”
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”
remove with or as if with a brush
“brush away the crumbs”
“brush the dust from the jacket”
“brush aside the objections”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brush come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.