Wiktionary
vb. 1 (&lit brush down English) To remove something with a brush, or ones hands using a downward brushing motion. 2 (context idiomatic English) To straighten one's clothes and to tidy up one's appearance.
WordNet
v. reprimand; "She told the misbehaving student off" [syn: tell off]
Usage examples of "brush down".
As she pulled the brush down the length of her hair, her neck throbbed and burned right over her suddenly wildly pounding pulse.
She took the time to smooth back her hair, brush down her parka, before she rose.
Her stiff nipples scraped against Riane's back as she ran a soft-bristled brush down Riane's spine.
Ivy shouted, and Kisten and I pulled apart before her boots made a soft brush down the hall.
Two hundred paces of fairly steep slope sparsely dotted with low brush down to level ground, perhaps seven hundred more of cleared ground to the first tents, then better than a mile to the town.
They clawed their way past the pointed sticks, others jumped up, pushed the brush down with the weight of their bodies.