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Plural of brush

regular plural

The plural of brush is brushes.

Forms of brush

Singularbrush /bɹʌʃ/
Pluralbrushes
Countablecountable and uncountable

Brushes in a sentence

  • He has had brushes with communism from time to time.
  • to download brushes for Photoshop
  • I don't want to buy any blimming brushes, so kindly go away!From the entry blimming
  • It is odd he gets so many cavities since he brushes his teeth religiously, every night, rain or shine.From the entry religiously
  • Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.From the entry trough

Meaning of brush

  1. noun An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
  2. noun The act of brushing something.
  3. noun A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.

Full definition of brush

Questions about the plural of brush

What is the plural of brush?
The plural of brush is brushes.
Is brush countable?
Brush is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brush (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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