"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 formed with \"away\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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 formed with \"away\"",
        "English rare forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "brush aside"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rare form of brush aside."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brush aside",
          "brush aside#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brush away"
}