What is the meaning of brushed?

verb

• Rub with a brush, or as if with a brush.
  • usage: "Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket"
  • synonyms: brush
• Touch lightly and briefly.
  • usage: "He brushed the wall lightly"
  • synonyms: brush
• Clean with a brush.
  • usage: "She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet"
  • synonyms: brush
• Sweep across or over.
  • usage: "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience"
  • synonyms: brush, sweep
• Remove with or as if with a brush.
  • usage: "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections"
  • synonyms: brush
• Cover by brushing.
  • usage: "brush the bread with melted butter"
  • synonyms: brush

adjective

• Touched lightly in passing; grazed against.
  • usage: "of all the people brushed against in a normal day on a city street I remember not a one"
• Of hair or clothing. ( groomed with a brush)
  • usage: "with shining hair neatly brushed"; "the freshly brushed clothes hung in the closet"
• Of fabrics. ( having soft nap produced by brushing)
  • usage: "a dress of brushed cotton"; "a fleecy lining"; "napped fabrics"
  • synonyms: fleecy, napped