| airbrush | (noun) an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air | - |
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| (verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
| bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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| brush | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: clash, encounter, skirmish |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) contact with something dangerous or undesirable | - |
| (noun) a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) | - |
| (noun) an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle | - |
| (noun) conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor | - |
| (noun) momentary contact | Synonyms: light touch |
| (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket |
| (verb) remove with or as if with a brush | - |
| (verb) touch lightly and briefly | - |
| (verb) rub with a brush, or as if with a brush | - |
| (verb) clean with a brush | - |
| (verb) cover by brushing | - |
| (verb) sweep across or over | Synonyms: sweep |
| bullrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bulrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bulrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| bulrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bullrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| clothesbrush | (noun) a brush used for cleaning clothing | - |
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| crush | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crunch |
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| (noun) temporary love of an adolescent | Synonyms: calf love, infatuation, puppy love |
| (noun) a dense crowd of people | Synonyms: jam, press |
| (noun) leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated | Synonyms: crushed leather |
| (verb) break into small pieces | - |
| (verb) become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure | - |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) make ineffective | Synonyms: break down |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: jam |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: smash |
| (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: oppress, suppress |
| hairbrush | (noun) a brush used to groom a person's hair | - |
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| inrush | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inpouring |
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| nailbrush | (noun) a brush used to clean a person's fingernails | - |
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| onrush | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onset, onslaught |
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| (noun) a forceful forward rush or flow | - |
| paintbrush | (noun) a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint) | - |
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| qurush | (noun) 20 qurush equal 1 riyal in Saudi Arabia | - |
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| redbrush | (noun) common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers | Synonyms: American dogwood, Cornus stolonifera, red dogwood, red osier, red osier dogwood |
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| rush | (adjective) done under pressure | Synonyms: rushed |
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| (adjective) not accepting reservations | Synonyms: first-come-first-serve |
| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rushing |
| (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rushing |
| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: spate, surge, upsurge |
| (noun) a sudden burst of activity | - |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, thrill |
| (noun) grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems | - |
| (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hasten, hurry, look sharp |
| (verb) urge to an unnatural speed | Synonyms: hurry |
| (verb) attack suddenly | - |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) run with the ball, in football | - |
| (verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race | Synonyms: race |
| sagebrush | (noun) any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium | Synonyms: sage brush |
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| thrush | (noun) songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast | - |
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| (noun) a woman who sings popular songs | - |
| (noun) candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults | - |
| toothbrush | (noun) small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth | - |
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| (noun) slang for a mustache | Synonyms: soup-strainer |
| underbrush | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: undergrowth, underwood |
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