Meaning

1 senses

  1. (archaic, slang)To flatter or suck up to someone

Examples

16 sentences

  1. You need to use the toilet brush to clean the bowl if necessary.

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  2. Elias brushed the hay to the side.

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  3. Layla was brushing her hair to detangle it.

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  4. Remember to brush before going to school, champ.

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  5. He just brushed aside any objections to the proposal.

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Forms

brushes up to, brushing up to, brushed up to, brushed up to
Base formbrush up to · to brush up to
3rd person singularbrushes up to
Present participlebrushing up to
Past simplebrushed up to
Past participlebrushed up to

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybrush up to
he, she, itbrushes up to

Past simpleLesson

all personsbrushed up to

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave brushed up to
he, she, ithas brushed up to

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill brush up to

Synonyms

16 synonyms
flatterC1sootheB1strokeB2jollylay it on thickpuffcollogueflatterizeglaverglozemake fair weatherpalaverpreenspeak well of

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bruntbrushA1brutalbrutalitybrutallybrute

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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