| brush | 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 |
| brush-off | a curt or disdainful rejection |
scrub
scrubbing
scouring | the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water |
| brush brushing | the act of brushing your hair, he gave his hair a quick brush |
| brush brushing | the act of brushing your teeth, the dentist recommended two brushes a day |
brush
clash
encounter
skirmish | a minor short-term fight |
scrubbird
scrub-bird
scrub bird | small fastunning Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub |
megapode
mound bird
mound-bird
mound builder
scrub fowl | large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia, build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs |
brush turkey
Alectura lathami | black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea |
wallaby
brush kangaroo | any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos, often brightly colored |
brush-tailed phalanger
Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
coyote
prairie wolf
brush wolf
Canis latrans | small wolf native to western North America |
| brush | a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) |
nymphalid
nymphalid butterfly
brush-footed butterfly
four-footed butterfly | medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and mucheduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast |
brush-tailed porcupine
brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
| bristle brush | a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant |
| brush | an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle |
| brush | conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor |
rigger
rigger brush | a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists |
sable sable brush
sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
scrub brush
scrubbing brush
scrubber | a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning |
| scrub plane | a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock |
| shaving brush | a brush used to apply lather prior to shaving |
| brush cut | a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush |
| brush fire | an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes |
brush
light touch | momentary contact |
brush
brushwood
coppice
copse
thicket | a dense growth of bushes |
scrub
chaparral
bush | dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes |
| scrub nurse | a nurse who helps a surgeon prepare for surgery |
| brush discharge | discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles |
scrub pine
Virginia pine
Jersey pine
Pinus virginiana | common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of |
quail bush
quail brush
white thistle Atriplex lentiformis | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
sagebrush
sage brush | any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium |
bud brush
bud sagebrush
Artemis spinescens | a perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States |
coyote brush
coyote bush
chaparral broom
kidney wort
Baccharis pilularis | widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle |
rabbit brush
rabbit bush
Chrysothamnus nauseosus | pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits, source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo |
shaving-brush tree
Pseudobombax ellipticum | tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear |
scrub beefwood
beefwood Stenocarpus salignus | tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers, yields hard heavy reddish wood |
| scrub oak | any of various chiefly American small shrubby oaks often a dominant form on thin dry soils sometimes forming dense thickets |
myrtle oak
seaside scrub oak
Quercus myrtifolia | small evergreen shrub or tree of southeastern United States, often forms almost impenetrable thickets in sandy coastal areas |
saw palmetto
scrub palmetto
Serenoa repens | small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States |
tsutsugamushi disease
scrub typhus | transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia |
scrub
scrub up | wash thoroughly, surgeons must scrub prior to an operation |
polish
round round off polish up
brush up | bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state, polish your social manners |
| brush | remove with or as if with a brush, brush away the crumbs, brush the dust from the jacket, brush aside the objections |
review brush up
refresh | refresh one's memory, I reviewed the material before the test |
dismiss
disregard
brush aside
brush off discount
push aside
ignore | bar from attention or consideration, She dismissed his advances |
tell off
brush down | reprimand, She told the misbehaving student off |
| brush | touch lightly and briefly, He brushed the wall lightly |
| brush | rub with a brush, or as if with a brush, Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket |