brush away

brush something away (from something)

to remove something from something by brushing; to get dirt or crumbs off something by brushing. He brushed a bit of lint away from Tom's collar. She brushed away the crumbs from the table.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Medusa	mə-DOO-sə (English)	Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Eder (2)	-	Basque
Yana	-	Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian
Mahmud	-	Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay
Joni (1)	JO-nee	English
Annalena	-	German