Synonyms of the word

brandish

• v. (transitive) To move or swing (a weapon) back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
• v. (transitive) To bear something with ostentatious show.
• n. The act of flourishing or waving.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

display

• n. A show or spectacle.
• n. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
• n. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
• v. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
• v. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
• v. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
• v. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
• v. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
• v. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.

exhibit

• v. (transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
• v. (transitive) To demonstrate.
• v. (transitive, law) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
• v. (intransitive) To put on a public display.
• v. (medicine) To administer as a remedy.
• n. An instance of exhibiting.
• n. That which is exhibited.
• n. A public showing; an exhibition.
• n. (law) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.

expose

• v. (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
• v. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
• v. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to…
• v. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

flourish

• v. (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
• v. (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
• v. (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
• v. (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
• v. (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
• v. (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado,…
• v. (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
• v. (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
• v. (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
• n. A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
• n. An ornamentation.
• n. (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
• n. (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

wafture

• n. Something that is wafted.
• n. The act of wafting something.

wave

• v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
• v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
• v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
• n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
• n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
• n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
• n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
• n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
• v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

waving

• v. present participle of wave.
• n. Repeated moving of arms or hands to signal.