"brush down" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-brush down.ogg [Australia] Forms: brushes down [present, singular, third-person], brushing down [participle, present], brushed down [participle, past], brushed down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} brush down (third-person singular simple present brushes down, present participle brushing down, simple past and past participle brushed down)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brush, down. To remove something with a brush, or ones hands using a downward brushing motion.
    Sense id: en-brush_down-en-verb-Bkf64z17
  2. (idiomatic) To straighten up one's clothes and to tidy up one's appearance. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-brush_down-en-verb-MvSb8qG5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (down) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (down): 26 74

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for brush down meaning in English (1.9kB)

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