All 6 Uses
gesticulate
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Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne trnsl by G&F - 44 chptrs
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- I could easily imagine him tearing along some solitary road, gesticulating, talking to himself, cutting the air with his cane, and still thinking of the absurd bit of hieroglyphics.†
Chpt 3gesticulating = making gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking or to express something
- This native of Iceland was active and supple in appearance, though he scarcely moved his arms, being in fact one of those men who despise the habit of gesticulation common to southern people.†
Chpt 8
- While the excellent Professor spoke sentence after sentence, he stood with folded arms, utterly still, motionless to all my uncle's gesticulations.†
Chpt 8 *gesticulations = gestures (hand or body movements) made while speaking or to express something
- My uncle never took his eyes from off it; he could not keep from gesticulating, and looking at it with a kind of sullen defiance as much as to say "That is the giant I have made up my mind to conquer."†
Chpt 10gesticulating = making gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking or to express something
- He ran from one to the other like a delighted schoolboy, gesticulating wildly, and uttering incomprehensible and disjointed phrases in all sorts of languages.†
Chpt 13
- I cried, in a wild and frantic tone, clapping my hands, and gesticulating like a madman.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(gesticulate) to make gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking or to express something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)