Brandish
verb
To wave or swing something, especially a weapon, in a threatening or excited manner.
The man brandished a knife at the intruders.
Often appears as...
- brandish a weapon
- brandish a knife
verb
To display something in order to impress or intimidate others.
He brandished his new diploma in front of everyone at the party.
Often appears as...
- brandish a document
- brandish a trophy
verb
To wave or swing something, especially a weapon, in a threatening or excited manner.
The man brandished a knife at the intruders.
Often appears as...
- brandish a weapon
- brandish a knife
verb
To display something in order to impress or intimidate others.
He brandished his new diploma in front of everyone at the party.
Often appears as...
- brandish a document
- brandish a trophy
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Threat
Use brandish when describing someone threateningly waving a dangerous object, suggesting potential harm.
The robber brandished a bat, causing panic among the bank customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Aggressive Action
Brandish implies aggressive or vigorous action, often done to intimidate others.
During the protest, several demonstrators brandished sticks and signs.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Intensity
Brandishing usually conveys strong emotions, such as anger, excitement, or defiance.
In a fit of rage, he brandished his fist at the sky.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Threat
Use brandish when describing someone threateningly waving a dangerous object, suggesting potential harm.
The robber brandished a bat, causing panic among the bank customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Aggressive Action
Brandish implies aggressive or vigorous action, often done to intimidate others.
During the protest, several demonstrators brandished sticks and signs.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Intensity
Brandishing usually conveys strong emotions, such as anger, excitement, or defiance.
In a fit of rage, he brandished his fist at the sky.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Threat
Use brandish when describing someone threateningly waving a dangerous object, suggesting potential harm.
The robber brandished a bat, causing panic among the bank customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Aggressive Action
Brandish implies aggressive or vigorous action, often done to intimidate others.
During the protest, several demonstrators brandished sticks and signs.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Intensity
Brandishing usually conveys strong emotions, such as anger, excitement, or defiance.
In a fit of rage, he brandished his fist at the sky.
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Video examples
A highly scientific...
The bank managers would indulge us for 30-45 seconds before calling security. Security would come out, brandish their weapons, and then we would squeal with fear and run away, because -- and this is the last rule of social justice comedy -- sometimes it makes you want to take a dump in your pants.
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How to saber a bottle of...
to you today that new idea that you discovered a new friend that you made something that delighted you or inspired you and to also encourage you to face your fears and try something new run at your fear with brandishing a knife there actually could be champagne on the other side so thank you
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How one piece of...
was to extend slavery to the entire nation. Congress was able to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act, but at the huge cost of bitterly dividing the nation, with 91% of the opposition coming from Northerners. In the House of Representatives, politicians traded insults and brandished weapons
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How to have a healthier,...
purity, fertility, love and, most importantly, sensuality, represents a female-centered life-transforming energy that courses through and animates life. She says that women who typify the osun force brandish their sexuality quite openly and unselfconsciously.
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How the Monkey King...
The legendary troublemaker been hatched from a stone, schooled in divine magic, and was currently brandishing the Dragon Lord’s most treasured weapon. This magical staff, originally large enough to measure the depth of a great flood,
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Apes with Tools PIPE...
animals are able to plan their thing and they define a solution to a problem for years now we've known some animals use tools especially in the pursuit of food these chimpanzees are experts at brandishing clubs to crack open nuts
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Islamophobia killed my...
For months, this man had been harassing knocking on their door, brandishing his gun on a couple of occasions. His Facebook was cluttered with anti-religion posts. Yusor felt particularly threatened by him. As she was moving in,
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3 steps to getting what...
When we think about negotiations, we think about being tough. We charge in like it's a battle, brandishing our influence and our power moves. But a negotiation doesn't have to be a fight with winners and losers.
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Why are cockroaches so...
But from poison traps to hastily brandished slippers, cockroaches seem to weather just about everything we throw at them. So what makes cockroaches so hard to kill? There are nearly 5,000 cockroach species.
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Fighting Lucifer PIPE...
stop the man brandishes a knife in a house full of people
Video examples
A highly scientific...
The bank managers would indulge us for 30-45 seconds before calling security. Security would come out, brandish their weapons, and then we would squeal with fear and run away, because -- and this is the last rule of social justice comedy -- sometimes it makes you want to take a dump in your pants.
Video examples
How to saber a bottle of...
to you today that new idea that you discovered a new friend that you made something that delighted you or inspired you and to also encourage you to face your fears and try something new run at your fear with brandishing a knife there actually could be champagne on the other side so thank you
Video examples
How one piece of...
was to extend slavery to the entire nation. Congress was able to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act, but at the huge cost of bitterly dividing the nation, with 91% of the opposition coming from Northerners. In the House of Representatives, politicians traded insults and brandished weapons
Video examples
How to have a healthier,...
purity, fertility, love and, most importantly, sensuality, represents a female-centered life-transforming energy that courses through and animates life. She says that women who typify the osun force brandish their sexuality quite openly and unselfconsciously.
Video examples
How the Monkey King...
The legendary troublemaker been hatched from a stone, schooled in divine magic, and was currently brandishing the Dragon Lord’s most treasured weapon. This magical staff, originally large enough to measure the depth of a great flood,
Video examples
Apes with Tools PIPE...
animals are able to plan their thing and they define a solution to a problem for years now we've known some animals use tools especially in the pursuit of food these chimpanzees are experts at brandishing clubs to crack open nuts
Video examples
Islamophobia killed my...
For months, this man had been harassing knocking on their door, brandishing his gun on a couple of occasions. His Facebook was cluttered with anti-religion posts. Yusor felt particularly threatened by him. As she was moving in,
Video examples
3 steps to getting what...
When we think about negotiations, we think about being tough. We charge in like it's a battle, brandishing our influence and our power moves. But a negotiation doesn't have to be a fight with winners and losers.
Video examples
Why are cockroaches so...
But from poison traps to hastily brandished slippers, cockroaches seem to weather just about everything we throw at them. So what makes cockroaches so hard to kill? There are nearly 5,000 cockroach species.
Video examples
Fighting Lucifer PIPE...
stop the man brandishes a knife in a house full of people
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Troy Carter
American Producer
When you have to negotiate for survival, and you have to know how to read rooms, and you have to know who the bad guys in the rooms are - who has the gun in their pocket, who's just going to brandish it, and who's going to actually pull the trigger. So I think that's just a natural instinct that comes with coming from where I come from.
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Courtney Act
Australian Entertainer
I think my first actual real job was a door-to-doors salesperson for Foxtel, a cable TV company, and that lasted a couple of weeks because I got held, like I wouldn't say at swordpoint, but I was kept in someone's house against my will and she did have a sword and was sort of brandishing it.
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Craig Brown
English Critic
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.
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Eric Liu
American Writer
The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?
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Jane Goldman
English Writer
There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead,' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!
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Amitava Kumar
Indian Writer
Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.
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Janeane Garofalo
American Comedian
I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.
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Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian Journalist
My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.
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Caroline Knapp
American Writer
You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.
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Scott Adkins
English Actor
I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm.
Quote examples
Troy Carter
American Producer
When you have to negotiate for survival, and you have to know how to read rooms, and you have to know who the bad guys in the rooms are - who has the gun in their pocket, who's just going to brandish it, and who's going to actually pull the trigger. So I think that's just a natural instinct that comes with coming from where I come from.
Quote examples
Courtney Act
Australian Entertainer
I think my first actual real job was a door-to-doors salesperson for Foxtel, a cable TV company, and that lasted a couple of weeks because I got held, like I wouldn't say at swordpoint, but I was kept in someone's house against my will and she did have a sword and was sort of brandishing it.
Quote examples
Craig Brown
English Critic
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.
Quote examples
Eric Liu
American Writer
The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?
Quote examples
Jane Goldman
English Writer
There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead,' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!
Quote examples
Amitava Kumar
Indian Writer
Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.
Quote examples
Janeane Garofalo
American Comedian
I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.
Quote examples
Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian Journalist
My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.
Quote examples
Caroline Knapp
American Writer
You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.
Quote examples
Scott Adkins
English Actor
I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm.
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