Definition of Brush down

1. Verb. Reprimand. "She told the misbehaving student off"


Definition of Brush down

1. Verb. (&lit brush down) To remove something with a brush, or ones hands using a downward brushing motion. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To straighten up one's clothes and to tidy up one's appearance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brush Down

brush-tailed penguin
brush-tailed penguins
brush-tailed phalanger
brush-tailed porcupine
brush-turkey
brush-turkeys
brush aside
brush biopsy
brush border
brush bow
brush burn
brush by
brush catheter
brush cut
brush discharge
brush down
brush fire
brush habitat
brush heap structure
brush kangaroo
brush layering
brush off
brush offs
brush on
brush turkey
brush turkeys
brush up
brush wheel
brush wheels
brush wolf

Literary usage of Brush down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1916)
"... serves to protect the material from being washed away by the current and the heavy material is necessary to obstruct the flow and hold the brush down. ..."

2. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1907)
"The hand is then rubbed down the subject's tack, while at the same time the observer passes a brush down his own coat, which should be of the stime material ..."

3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"Only when Sato laid the brush down, bowed ceremonially to the unconscious O-Jii-San, put on his sandals' and trudged away up the path to the shrine where ..."

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