You dare brandish your weapons in front of your king?
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Brandish
//ˈbɹændɪʃ//
Synonyms for "brandish" (87 found)
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59 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πάλλω verb (to move a weapon)
- πάλλω verb (to bear something with ostentatious show)
Bulgarian
1 entries- размахвам заплашително verb (to move a weapon)
Catalan
2 entries- brandar verb (to move a weapon)
- brandejar verb (to move a weapon)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 揮 /挥 verb (to move a weapon)
- 揮舞 /挥舞 verb (to move a weapon)
Czech
1 entries- mávat verb (to move a weapon)
Danish
1 entries- svinge verb (to move a weapon)
Dutch
1 entries- zwaaien verb (to move a weapon)
Finnish
2 entries- heiluttaa verb (to move a weapon)
- heristää verb (to move a weapon)
French
1 entries- brandir verb (to move a weapon)
Galician
1 entries- brandir verb (to move a weapon)
German
4 entries- ausstellen verb (to bear something with ostentatious show)
- führen verb (to move a weapon)
- hantieren verb (to move a weapon)
- herzeigen verb (to bear something with ostentatious show)
Greek
1 entries- κραδαίνω verb (to move a weapon)
Icelandic
2 entries- bregða verb (to move a weapon)
- sveifla verb (to move a weapon)
Ido
1 entries- brandisar verb (to move a weapon)
Irish
1 entries- bagair verb (to move a weapon)
Japanese
2 entries- 振り回す verb (to move a weapon)
- 閃かす verb (to move a weapon)
Korean
1 entries- 휘두르다 verb (to move a weapon)
Latin
1 entries- vibrō verb (to move a weapon)
Middle English
1 entries- braundischen verb (to move a weapon)
Māori
4 entries- pīoioi verb (to move a weapon)
- tōwhiri verb (to move a weapon)
- tōwhiriwhiri verb (to move a weapon)
- whakahana verb (to move a weapon)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- svinge verb (to move a weapon)
Occitan
1 entries- brandir verb (to move a weapon)
Old Norse
1 entries- bregða verb (to move a weapon)
Polish
2 entries- obnosić się verb (to bear something with ostentatious show)
- wymachiwać verb (to move a weapon)
Portuguese
1 entries- brandir verb (to move a weapon)
Romanian
2 entries- a învârti (sabia) verb (to move a weapon)
- flutura verb (to move a weapon)
Russian
4 entries- выставля́ть напока́з verb (to bear something with ostentatious show)
- маха́ть verb (to move a weapon)
- разма́хивать verb (to move a weapon)
- хва́статься verb (to bear something with ostentatious show)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- crath verb (to move a weapon)
Spanish
2 entries- blandir verb (to move a weapon)
- esgrimir verb (to move a weapon)
Swedish
3 entries- hytta verb (to move a weapon)
- hötta verb (to move a weapon)
- svinga verb (to move a weapon)
Ukrainian
2 entries- маха́ти verb (to move a weapon)
- розма́хувати verb (to move a weapon)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
He brandished his sword at the pirates.
Source: wiktionary
Hvng be yͤ heauens vvith black, yield day to night; / Comets importing change of Times and States, / Brandiſh your cryſtall Treſſes in the Skie, / And vvith them ſcourge the bad reuolting Stars, / That haue conſented vnto Henries Death: / King Henry the Fift, too famous to liue long, / England ne're loſt a King of ſo much vvorth.
Source: wiktionary
the quivering lance which he brandished bright
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