DUSTPANS Antonyms

• a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle

• any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers

• common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere

• sweep with a broom or as if with a broom

• finish with a broom

• a dense growth of bushes

• an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

• momentary contact

• conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

• a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)

• a minor short-term fight

• the act of brushing your teeth

• the act of brushing your hair

• contact with something dangerous or undesirable

• rub with a brush, or as if with a brush

• touch lightly and briefly

• clean with a brush

• sweep across or over

• remove with or as if with a brush

• cover by brushing

• artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

• a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand

• a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles

• a piece of cloth used for dusting

• a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter

• cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors

• to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

• make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

• a small piece of cloth

• a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities

• music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)

• newspaper with half-size pages

• a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)

• treat cruelly

• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

• play in ragtime

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• censure severely or angrily

• break into lumps before sorting

• an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)

• a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet

• little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body

• a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping

• wipe with a towel

• the absence of matter

• an empty area or space

• a region that is devoid of matter

• an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction

• clean with a vacuum cleaner