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brushing

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1. brushing - Noun

2. brushing - Adjective

3. brushing - Verb

Meaning

of Brush

Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.

Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth. Randall Jarrell

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. Vash Young

Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. Thomas Gray

When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh. James Jones

By simply moving information and brushing information against information, any medium whatever creates vast wealth. Marshall McLuhan

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate. Geena Davis

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