Brushes Synonyms

*The act of ignoring
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rebuffs
  2. slights
  3. cut
Underbrush
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. thickets
  2. brakes
  3. spinneys
  4. scrubs
  5. hedges
  6. shrubberies
  7. copses
  8. covers
  9. groves
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A touch
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. grazes
  2. skims
  3. strokes
  4. taps
  5. flicks
  6. rubs
A minor short-term fight
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. skirmishes
  2. encounters
  3. clashes
  4. scraps
  5. run-ins
Sweep across or over
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. touches
  2. skims
  3. sweeps
  4. grazes
  5. whisks
  6. shaves
  7. scuffles
  8. rubs
  9. paints
  10. grooms
  11. kisses
  12. frays
  13. fights
  14. encounters
  15. conflicts
  16. combs
  17. cleans
  18. flicks
  19. smooths
  20. clashes
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To clean by brushing
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wipes
  2. whisks
  3. sweeps

Words Related to Brushes

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Brushes Sentence Examples

  • The horns are more or less lyrate,and generally developed in both sexes; there are frequently brushes of hair on the knees.

  • Among other manufactures are brushes, boilers and the like, machinery, metal ware generally, the cases and other parts of watches.

  • The larvae are active and voracious little grub-like creatures (known in the United States as "wrigglers"), with large heads and jaws provided with a pair of brushes, which sweep food-particles into the mouth.

  • In this water the cocoons are kept stirring by small brushes rotated by mechanical means, and as the silk softens the brushes gradually rise out of the water, bringing entangled with them the loose floss, and thereby revealing the main filament of each cocoon.

  • It has a Protestant and a Roman Catholic church and manufactures of brushes, plush goods, cigars and margarine.

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