BRUSH OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brush off mean? 

• BRUSH OFF (verb)
  The verb BRUSH OFF has 1 sense:

1. bar from attention or consideration

  Familiarity information: BRUSH OFF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUSH OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bar from attention or consideration

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

brush aside; brush off; discount; dismiss; disregard; ignore; push aside

Context example:

She dismissed his advances

Hypernyms (to "brush off" is one way to...):

reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "brush off"):

cold-shoulder; slight (pay no attention to, disrespect)

discredit (cause to be distrusted or disbelieved)

shrug off (minimize the importance of, brush aside)

pass off (disregard)

flout; scoff (treat with contemptuous disregard)

turn a blind eye (refuse to acknowledge)

laugh away; laugh off (deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it)

disoblige (ignore someone's wishes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

brush-off (a curt or disdainful rejection)