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brush away

brush away is the rare form of brush aside.

Meaning of brush aside

Verb

brush aside (third-person singular simple present brushes aside, present participle brushing aside, simple past and past participle brushed aside)

  1. (transitive) To disregard, dismiss or ignore something, as unimportant.
    • He brushed aside all my objections and went ahead with the project regardless.
  2. (transitive) To defeat with ease.
    • The ease with which Stoke brushed aside their Israeli opponents bodes well for the return fixture in early November, when a win could could secure their passage to the last 32.2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport

Forms of brush away

third-person singular presentbrushes away
present participlebrushing away
past participlebrushed away
pastbrushed away

Questions about brush away

What is brush away the rare form of?
Brush away is the rare form of brush aside.

Words near brush away in the dictionary

  1. Brusco
  2. Bruscos
  3. Bruses
  4. brush
  5. brush aside
  6. brush away
  7. brush back
  8. brush blade
  9. brush blades
  10. brush border
  11. brush borders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brush away (page history and authors); brush aside (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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