• n.
    ⦿contact with something dangerous or undesirable
    lexical concept
  • I had a brush with danger on my way to work
  • he tried to avoid any brushes with the police

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:brush
wn:interlingual indexili:i35618

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelbrush