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Pronunciation: [bɹˈʌʃ wɪð] (IPA)

Brushing with something refers to a brief or superficial encounter with it. There are several synonyms that can be used in place of "brush with". The phrase "close call" often implies narrowly avoiding danger or disaster. "Near miss" is another similar term used to describe a situation where someone narrowly avoids a problem. "Close shave" is a more humorous way to describe a situation that almost went wrong. "Brief encounter" is a term that can be used to refer to a chance meeting or a short interaction with someone or something. "Close encounter" or "close interaction" can also be used to describe a similar scenario.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for brush with?

When we use the term "brush with," we generally refer to a close or brief encounter with someone or something. However, there are certain antonyms for this term that can completely reverse its meaning. "Avoidance of," "far from," and "separation from" can all be used as antonyms for "brush with." These antonyms suggest that someone has deliberately stayed away from an encounter, never come into contact with something or someone, or created a distance or barrier to ensure they don't experience a close encounter. So, while the term "brush with" may imply a close encounter, its antonyms suggest a purposeful avoidance or distance.

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Famous quotes with Brush with

  • I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.
    Samantha Fox
  • After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.
    Henry Bromel
  • And lately fashion photographers, bored with Rome or the Acropolis, have ventured farther afield for the frisson of syncretism. Why not Calcutta? Why not the slums of Rio? Cairo? Mexico City? The attempt is for an unearned, casual brush with awe by enlisting untouchable extras. And if the model can be seen to move with idiot stridency through tragedy, then the model is invincible. Luxury is portrayed as protective. Or protected. Austere, somehow—“spiritual.” Irony posing as asceticism or as worldly-wise.
    Richard Rodriguez
  • A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
    Paulo Coelho
  • A powerful critical talent who destroyed his own sense of proportion, Leavis was our brush with totalitarianism: we caught it as a mild fever instead of the full attack of meningitis. His career was the clearest possible proof that the course the arts take is not under the control of criticism.
    F. R. Leavis

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