Scrabble?! BRUSH

Definitions of BRUSH in various dictionaries:

noun - a dense growth of bushes

noun - an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

noun - momentary contact

noun - conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

noun - a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)

noun - a minor short-term fight

noun - the act of brushing your teeth

noun - the act of brushing your hair

noun - contact with something dangerous or undesirable

verb - rub with a brush, or as if with a brush

verb - touch lightly and briefly

verb - clean with a brush

verb - sweep across or over

verb - remove with or as if with a brush

verb - cover by brushing

A device consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, or painting.

The act of using this device.

A light touch in passing; a graze.

A bushy tail: the brush of a fox.

A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.

A snub; a brushoff.

To clean, polish, or groom with a brush.

To apply with or as if with motions of a brush.

To remove with or as if with motions of a brush.

To dismiss abruptly or curtly: brushed the matter aside; brushed an old friend off.

To touch lightly in passing; graze against.

To use or apply a brush.

To move past something so as to touch it lightly.

To refresh one’s memory.

The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to make light and momentary contact with something in passing”: her arm brushing mine; flicked the paper with his finger; an arrow that glanced off the tree; a knife blade grazing the countertop; a taxi that shaved the curb; an oar skimming the surface of the pond.

A dense growth of bushes or shrubs.

Land covered by such a growth.

Cut or broken branches.

verb - to touch lightly