brandishing
English edit
Verb edit
brandishing
- present participle and gerund of brandish
Noun edit
brandishing (plural brandishings)
- The action of the verb to brandish.
- 1989, Richard Bauman, Joel Sherzer, Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, page 195:
- He stands there and launches into a tauparapara or traditional chant, accompanied by vigorous actions and defiant brandishings of his stick.