0 present participle of brandish
1 to wave something in the air in a threatening or excited way:
Their fiery speeches, their ' secret ' gatherings so easily penetrated by informers, their brandishing of home-made pikes can also be read as theatre, bravado, coat-trailing.
Brandishing the key, he goes in after her.
Brandishing rhetorical remarks about good order and discipline never helps in an industrial dis- pute.
There are also those who believe that it is possible to make people do things by brandishing the big stick of insecurity.
If they are interested in controlling, as well as brandishing, arms, they should show it by making a positive response.
We must never be part of an alliance which retaliates to threats by brandishing nuclear arms or nothing at all.
The contractor has to look at the man who is brandishing the form before him and to decide whether the man is like his photograph.
Would he consider brandishing the deterrent of being banned from driving for life in order to minimise, if not eliminate, this type of crime?
