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brushed by

brushed by is the simple past and past participle of brush by.

Meaning of brush by

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To walk past another person, touching them slightly, normally by accident, and ignoring them.
    • The production manager brushed by me on the stairs. He seemed to be in a real hurry.

Questions about brushed by

What is brushed by the simple past and past participle of?
Brushed by is the simple past and past participle of brush by.

Words near brushed by in the dictionary

  1. brushcutters
  2. brushed
  3. brushed aside
  4. brushed away
  5. brushed back
  6. brushed by
  7. brushed down
  8. brushed off
  9. brushed one's teeth
  10. brushed out
  11. brushed over

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brushed by (page history and authors); brush by (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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