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brusht

brusht is the obsolete form of brushed.

brusht is the simple past and past participle of brush.

Meaning of brushed

Adjective

brushed (comparative more brushed, superlative most brushed)

  1. Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish.
    • The brushed aluminum vase had a soft appearance.
  2. Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.
    • This boy is standing there with very brushed hair .2012, Kevin Sampson, Freshers, page 33
    1. Having been processed by rotating brushes that loosen and remove dirt.
      • The decay in sound unbrushed, brushed, and washed fruit, and in fruit all of which has been injured by the clippers in picking, by stems puncturing other oranges or by abrasions of other kinds.1906, “Loss by Decay in Oranges”, in Industrial Refrigeration, volume 30, page 313
  3. Having been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb.
    • I recommended the forming of brushed swarms about 15 years ago, in the American Apiculturist, and made them on the old stand as well as on a new stand in uncounted numbers, with the result that these swarms always worked with the same vigor as natural swarms, so I know what I say.1900, L. Stachelhausen, “A New Management for Comb-Honey Production”, in Gleanings in Bee Culture, volume 28, page 840
  4. Having been written or painted using a brush.
    • The sparse drip patterns of his "preliminary" drip paintings were deposited over a foundation of brushed paint (see, for example, Water Birds, shown in color plate 13).2003, J. Casti, A. Karlqvist, Art and Complexity, page 134
  5. Covered in brush or scrub.
    • Other data obtained indicate that an average holding having 20 to 25 acres cleared and also 6 or 8 acres of brushed pasture can support 4 milk cows and 3 head of young cattle.1931, W. A. Hartman, J. D. Black, Economic Aspects of Land Settlement in the Cut-over Region of the Great Lakes States, page 33

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Meaning of brush

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To clean with a brush.
    • Brush your teeth.
  2. (transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
    • Brush your hair.
  3. (transitive) To apply with a brush.
    • I am brushing the paint onto the walls.
  4. (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
    • She brushed the flour off my clothes.
  5. (ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
    • Her scarf brushed his skin.
  6. (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
    • Of course, Halloween does not have to be completely treatless. Plain chocolate candy is okay, provided you remember to brush afterwards.2000, USA Today, volume 129, numbers 2662-2673, page 92

See all 22 meanings of brush

Forms of brusht

comparativemore brusht
superlativemost brusht

Questions about brusht

What is brusht the obsolete form of?
Brusht is the obsolete form of brushed.

Words near brusht in the dictionary

  1. brushroll
  2. brushrolls
  3. brushrunner
  4. brushstroke
  5. brushstrokes
  6. brusht
  7. brushtail
  8. brushtail possum
  9. brushtail possums
  10. brushtails
  11. brushtalk

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