brush - English word #655

Translation

To move a brush over something to make it clean or tidy.

Word origin

From Old French brosse, meaning brushwood, later a tool made from stiff hairs.

Verb typeregular (brush, brushes, brushed)

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Here "brush" means to move a brush over your teeth to clean them.

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"Brushed" is the past form of "brush".

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"Brushes" is the form used with he, she, or it.

hair

The soft threads that grow on your head and on your body.

clean

To take away dirt from something so it is no longer dirty.

paint

To put colour on a surface with a brush, or to make a picture this way.

hand

The part of your body at the end of your arm, with fingers and a thumb.

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