brush up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
refresh one's memory
I reviewed the material before the test
Types & categories
- recall hypernym
Related & opposite
- refresher course derivation
- brushup derivation
Sense 2 verb
bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
polish your social manners
Types & categories
- perfect hypernym
Related & opposite
- refinement derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | refresher course |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | brushup |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | recall |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | refinement |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | perfect |