Brush
Ignore
Ignore verb - To fail to give proper attention to.
Usage example: ignoring your health now will haunt you further down the road
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Police Are Useless: Particularly in the first film, in which their response to a hysterical mother's report of a child stranded alone for over a day is to try to ignore it, then brush it off when it can't be instantly verified.
Source: Film / Home Alone -
More Than Mind Control: The Quantum Servers and Celeblum can make people control what people pay attention to so if someone disappears people just ignore them unless specifically brought up and even then they just brush it off.
Source: Anime / Zegapain
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Ignore and Brush. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/brush/ignore
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Ignore or Brush. 2016. Accessed August 08, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/brush/ignore.
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