Meanings (ES + gloss)
brocha • bruza • cepillo • escobilla • pincel • sedera
An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
cepillado
The act of brushing something.
She gave her hair a quick brush.
as leaves Do on the oak, have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughs
escobilla
A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
matorral
Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
We broke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.
encuentro • roce
A short, possibly recurrent encounter or experience.
He has had brushes with communism from time to time.
brush with death
Phrases
air brushair-brushairbrushantelope brushas daft as a brushbadgerbrushbath-brushbeard brushbeebrushbitterbrushbog brushbottle brushbottlebrushbristle brushbroad brushbroad-brushbrush awaybrush bladebrush borderbrush bowbrush coralbrush cuckoobrush cutbrush fencebrush firebrush headbrush hookbrush one's teethbrush pastbrush penbrush rabbitbrush something under the rugbrush talkbrush truckbrush turkeybrush upbrush up tobrush warblerbrush wheelbrush wolf
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acepillar • cepillar
To clean with a brush.
Brush your teeth.
acepillar • cepillar
To untangle or arrange with a brush.
Brush your hair.
aplicar • brochar • brochear
To apply with a brush.
I am brushing the paint onto the walls.
recoger
To remove with a sweeping motion.
Caliban: As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd / With raven's feather from unwholesome fen / Drop on you both![…]
She brushed the flour off my clothes.
rozar
To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
Her scarf brushed his skin.
Some spread their sails, some with strong oars sweep / The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave.
Phrases