Brush Up

Definition: Brush Up

Brush Up

Verb

1. Refresh one's memory.

2. Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Brush Up

Cleanness

Clean, cleanse; mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up.

Improvement

Touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair; (restore); put in order; (arrange).

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

I could brush up on my English, or bring along an interpreter, that is if they'd let in a movie actor. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Brush up against me i get chills all down my spine (Sexual (Li Da Di); performing artist: Amber)

Prevent truth decay. Brush up on your Bible. (references; author: unknown)

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (performing artist: National Symphony Orchestra)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Brush Up Your Bible! (reference)

• Brush Up Your Classics! (reference)

• Brush Up Your Mythology (reference)

• Brush up your pidgin (reference)

• Brush Up Your Poetry! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "brush up": brush up against ♦ To brush up. Additional references.

Albanian

rivihem, mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صقل المعلومات. (various references)

Bulgarian 

реша (comb), опреснявам (freshen, refresh, rub up), изчетквам се, изчетквам (brush, brush away, brush off). (various references)

Czech

zopakovat si (go through). (various references)

Finnish

verestää (refresh). (various references)

French

se remettre � , coup de brosse (brush). (various references)

German

zusammenkehren (sweep up), reaktivieren (call up again, polish up, reactivate, rehabilitate, revive), rauhen (raising), polieren (buff, burnish, furbish, glaze, gloss, polish, polish up, polishing, rub, rubbing, shine, shining, simonize, slick, to polish, to slick), aufrauhen (brush, make rough, nap, roughen, roughen up), aufputzen (adorn, clean up, deck out, decorate, do up, dress up, ornament, polish up), aufkehren, auffrischen (boost, brighten up, freshen, freshen up, get fresher, polish up, recreate, refresh, refreshing, refurbish, renew, renovate, replenish, stiffen, to freshen, to recreate, to refresh, touch up), auffegen (sweep up). (various references)

Greek 

φρεσκάρω (freshen, refresh, refurbish). (various references)

Hebrew 

לרע� ן י�"יעות. (various references)

Hungarian

felfrissít (freshen, perk, refresh, refurbish, to brush up, to enliven, to freshen, to recruit, to refresh, to refurbish, to renew, to revive, to touch up), felelevenít (bring back, reproduce, to brush up, to evoke, to recall, to resuscitate, to revive, vivify). (various references)

Italian

migliorare (ameliorate, amend, better, gain, get better, improve, pick up, refine on, refine upon). (various references)

Manx

skeabey seose (sweep up), skeabey (brush, brush over, brushing, drift, sweep, sweeping). (various references)

Pig Latin

ushbray upay

Portuguese

revisar (clip, correct, go over, review, revise), retocar (alter, finish, put the last hand to, retouch, touch up). (various references)

Romanian

reîmprospãta cunoştinţele, lustrui (brighten, burnish, clean, furbish, glass, glaze, gloss, polish, polish up, rub up, shine, sleek, surface), curãţa (brush, burnish, clean, cleanse, clear, demolish, do, dredge, dress, dust, furbish, Gill, grub, mop, mop up, pick, purge, purify, refine, rid, rinse, scavenge, scoop, scour, scrub, skin, trim, wash, wipe). (various references)

Russian 

освежать (fan, freshen, freshen up, refresh, renovate, rub up), подновлять (furbish, refresh). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

očetkati (brush), dovesti u red (arrange things, marshal, put in order, rally, trim). (various references)

Spanish

repasar (get up, go over, go through, learn up, repass, review, revise), refrescar (cool, freshen, freshen up, refresh). (various references)

Swedish

friska upp (freshen). (various references)

Turkish

tazelemek (freshen, freshen up, recreate, refresh, renew, renovate, rub up, top up). (various references)

Turkmen 

yюyklandyrmak (refresh, touch up). (various references)

Ukrainian

освіжати (freshen, freshen up, refect, refresh, sweeten), оновлювати (innovate). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: brushup.

-1 letter: uprush.

-2 letters: brush, buhrs, burps, rubus, shrub, usurp.

-3 letters: buhr, burp, burs, bush, hubs, pubs, purs, push, rhus, rubs, rush, spur, urbs, urus.

-4 letters: bur, bus, hub, hup, pub, pur, pus, rub, sub, sup, ups, urb.

-5 letters: sh, uh, up, us.

+1 letter: brushups.