brush aside vs shrug off

brush aside and shrug off both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brush aside	No	No	Yes	No
shrug off	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, shrug off is a hyponym of brush aside; that is, shrug off is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than brush aside:

brush aside: bar from attention or consideration
shrug off: minimize the importance of, brush aside

Other hyponyms of brush aside include cold-shoulder, slight, discredit, pass off, flout, scoff, turn a blind eye, laugh away, laugh off, disoblige.

brush aside (verb)	shrug off (verb)
bar from attention or consideration	minimize the importance of, brush aside

brush aside vs shrug off

brush aside and shrug off both are verbs.

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