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brushing by

brushing by is the present participle and gerund 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 brushing by

What is brushing by the present participle and gerund of?
Brushing by is the present participle and gerund of brush by.

Words near brushing by in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brushing 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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