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Definition of Brush down
1. Verb. Reprimand. "She told the misbehaving student off"
Generic synonyms: Bawl Out, Berate, Call Down, Call On The Carpet, Chew Out, Chew Up, Chide, Dress Down, Have Words, Jaw, Lambast, Lambaste, Lecture, Rag, Rebuke, Remonstrate, Reprimand, Reproof, Scold, Take To Task, Trounce
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
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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