What is another word for "brush"?

Another word for brush depends on its meaning as tool or vegetation or verb. For a brush as a cleaning tool, synonyms include broom, sweeper, scrubber, whisk, and besom for traditional twig broom. For a paintbrush, synonyms include applicator, paint tool, or specific types like flat brush or round brush. For a hairbrush, synonyms include comb, grooming brush, and detangler. For brush as vegetation, synonyms include underbrush, undergrowth, scrub, scrubland, thicket, chaparral, shrubbery, bushes, brambles, and bracken. For example, instead of dense brush you could say dense underbrush or thicket. As a verb meaning to clean with a brush, synonyms include sweep, scrub, clean, groom, and dust. As a verb meaning to touch lightly, synonyms include graze, skim, glance, touch, and kiss. As a verb meaning to dismiss, synonyms include dismiss, reject, ignore, shrug off, and brush off. As a noun meaning a brief encounter, synonyms include encounter, run-in, confrontation, and skirmish, as in brush with the law. So alternative words vary, but common general synonyms are broom for tool and scrub or thicket for vegetation, and sweep or graze for verb.