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say it: bruhsht
brushed is an adjective meaning "touched lightly in passing; grazed against". It carries 3 recorded senses.
touched lightly in passing; grazed against
“of all the people brushed against in a normal day on a city street I remember not a one”
(of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush
“with shining hair neatly brushed”
“the freshly brushed clothes hung in the closet”
(of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing
“a dress of brushed cotton”
“a fleecy lining”
“napped fabrics”
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 brushed 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.