"brush away" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brushes away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushing away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushed away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushed away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "brush away (third-person singular simple present brushes away, present participle brushing away, simple past and past participle brushed away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 October, “Preventing Rail Corrosion”, in Railway Magazine, page 648",
          "text": "Recently the Great Northern Railway, U,S.A., which has a considerable mileage of line bordering the Pacific seaboard, has put in service mobile equipment for applying anti-corrosion treatment to rails. An old motor-car has been adapted to carry two oxy-acetylene flame-cleaning heads, which simultaneously clean both sides of both rails of all mill-scale and rust as the car is hand-propelled forward; men follow to brush away the loosened material; the final operation is that of spraying both rails, by means of paint guns carried on a trolley, with a corrosion-resisting compound.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "brush aside"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rare form of brush aside."
      ],
      "id": "en-brush_away-en-verb-TlVdgbZV",
      "links": [
        [
          "brush aside",
          "brush aside#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brush away"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brushes away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushing away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushed away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brushed away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "brush away (third-person singular simple present brushes away, present participle brushing away, simple past and past participle brushed away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
        "English rare forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 October, “Preventing Rail Corrosion”, in Railway Magazine, page 648",
          "text": "Recently the Great Northern Railway, U,S.A., which has a considerable mileage of line bordering the Pacific seaboard, has put in service mobile equipment for applying anti-corrosion treatment to rails. An old motor-car has been adapted to carry two oxy-acetylene flame-cleaning heads, which simultaneously clean both sides of both rails of all mill-scale and rust as the car is hand-propelled forward; men follow to brush away the loosened material; the final operation is that of spraying both rails, by means of paint guns carried on a trolley, with a corrosion-resisting compound.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "brush aside"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rare form of brush aside."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brush aside",
          "brush aside#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brush away"
}