brandish

1. 1.

   the act of waving

   Synonymsflourish

   Broaderwave

Other forms of brandish

plural

brandishes·

past tense

brandished·

present participle

brandishing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brandish

What does brandish mean?

brandish means "move or swing back and forth". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brandish?

brandish has 2 syllables: bran-dish. The stress falls on "bran". In IPA it is /ˈbɹændɪʃ/.

What is another word for brandish?

Close synonyms include flourish, wave, flourish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brandish a common word?

brandish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.