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brushed up to

brushed up to is the simple past and past participle of brush up to.

Meaning of brush up to

Verb

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

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

Questions about brushed up to

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

Words near brushed up to in the dictionary

  1. brushed something under the carpet
  2. brushed something under the rug
  3. brushed trapdoor spider
  4. brushed trapdoor spiders
  5. brushed up
  6. brushed up to
  7. brusher
  8. brushers
  9. brushes
  10. brushes aside
  11. brushes away

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