All 3 Uses
brandish
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
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- He threw down the whip, bent forward and picked up from the bottom of the cart a long, thick shaft, he took hold of one end with both hands and with an effort brandished it over the mare.†
Chpt 1.5brandished = waved or exhibited aggressively
- "My property!" shouted Mikolka, with bloodshot eyes, brandishing the bar in his hands.†
Chpt 1.5 *brandishing = waving something or exhibiting it aggressively
- But the commissariat clerk was unwilling to let him off so easily: he picked up a glass from the table, brandished it in the air and flung it at Pyotr Petrovitch; but the glass flew straight at Amalia Ivanovna.†
Chpt 5.3brandished = waved or exhibited aggressively
Definitions:
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(1)
(brandish) the act of waving something or exhibiting it aggressively
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)