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# brandish

«brandish» in Mova's school dictionary: **to wave or shake a weapon or object in the air, to show…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (brandish, brandishes, brandished, brandishing)

### meaning for a pupil

To brandish is to wave or shake a weapon or object in the air, to show it off or to threaten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brandish/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a hero brandishes a sword or a whip before a fight

### examples

- The knight brandished his sword. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brandish/#x1)
- The coachman brandished his whip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brandish/#x2)
- She brandished a burning torch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brandish/#x3)
- Don't brandish that stick at your brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brandish/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brandish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brandish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.