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Definition of Brushed
1. Adjective. Touched lightly in passing; grazed against. "Of all the people brushed against in a normal day on a city street I remember not a one"
2. Adjective. (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush. "The freshly brushed clothes hung in the closet"
3. Adjective. (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing. "Napped fabrics"
Definition of Brushed
1. Adjective. rubbed, especially as a finish. ¹
2. Verb. (past of brush) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brushed
1. brush [v] - See also: brush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brushed
Literary usage of Brushed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Coal Mining in Arkansas by Alvin Arthur Steel (1910)
"brushed entries. The holes for blasting down the roof are drilled upward at ...
brushed entries are nearly always wide to provide room in which to pile the ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"Powdered alum, she states, may be sprinkled upon carpets already laid and then
brushed or swept into their meshes with no injury to the carpets and with the ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"and brushed away from his vision the persistence and ubiquity of sin. What the
Creator is reported in Genesis to have seen, that all that he had made was ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"It has unhesitatingly brushed aside all legislation of the State impairing their
obligation. When a tax has been authorized by law to meet them, ..."
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