Word.ws English Dictionary

brushes out

brushes out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brush out.

Meaning of brush out

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To clean a form using lye or turpentine.
  2. (transitive) To brush (someone's hair or an animal's fur) to remove tangles and give the hair a satisfactory texture.
    • The first step in brushing out a dog’s coat is…
  3. (transitive) To remove brush (wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees) from a trail, campsite, etc.
    • It’s important to brush out the north trails before the spring.

Questions about brushes out

What is brushes out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Brushes out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brush out.

Words near brushes out in the dictionary

  1. brushes back
  2. brushes by
  3. brushes down
  4. brushes off
  5. brushes one's teeth
  6. brushes out
  7. brushes over
  8. brushes past
  9. brushes something under the carpet
  10. brushes something under the rug
  11. brushes up

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brushes out (page history and authors); brush out (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “brushes out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/brushes_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.