All 4 Uses
gesticulate
in
The Island of Dr. Moreau
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- They were gesticulating excitedly.†
Chpt 12 *gesticulating = making gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking or to express something
- They saw me, and began gesticulating and advancing.†
Chpt 13
- We three blue-clad men, with our misshapen black-faced attendant, standing in a wide expanse of sunlit yellow dust under the blazing blue sky, and surrounded by this circle of crouching and gesticulating monstrosities,—some almost human save in their subtle expression and gestures, some like cripples, some so strangely distorted as to resemble nothing but the denizens of our wildest dreams; and, beyond, the reedy lines of a canebrake in one direction, a dense tangle of palm-trees on the other, separating us from the ravine with the huts, and to the north the hazy horizon of the Pacific Ocean.†
Chpt 16
- I went to the lowest point of the low headland, and gesticulated and shouted.†
Chpt 21gesticulated = made gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking or to express something
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)