See brandish on Wiktionary
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"text": "He brandished his sword at the pirates.",
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"ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 96, column 1:",
"text": "Hvng be yͤ heauens vvith black, yield day to night; / Comets importing change of Times and States, / Brandiſh your cryſtall Treſſes in the Skie, / And vvith them ſcourge the bad reuolting Stars, / That haue conſented vnto Henries Death: / King Henry the Fift, too famous to liue long, / England ne're loſt a King of ſo much vvorth.",
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"ref": "1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:",
"text": "the quivering lance which he brandished bright",
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"ref": "1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 2, stanza IX, page 53:",
"text": "Back, he spurred like a madman, shouting a curse to the sky, / With the white road smoking behind him, and his rapier brandished high! / Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat; […]",
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"(transitive) To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating anger, threat or skill."
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"word": "flutura"
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"word": "a învârti (sabia)"
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"word": "маха́ть"
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"word": "разма́хивать"
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"sense": "to move a weapon",
"word": "esgrimir"
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"sense": "to move a weapon",
"word": "blandir"
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"word": "hötta"
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"word": "маха́ти"
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"text": "to brandish syllogisms",
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"english": "Fanny Hill",
"ref": "1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 66:",
"text": "Long, however, the young ſpark did not remain, before, giving it [his penis] two or three ſhakes, by way of brandiſhing it, he threw himſelf upon her, […]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2011, Jejomar C. Binay, Binay: Blame corruption on modern consumerism, Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/315850/binay-blame-corruption-modern-consumerism",
"text": "It sets the stage for cutting corners in our principles just so we can brandish a perceived badge of stature."
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"word": "vorzeigen"
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/En-au-brandish.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ændɪʃ"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "flourish"
}
],
"word": "brandish"
}
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