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词汇 gesticulate
释义 gesticulate
verb[ I ]
 formaluk /dʒesˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/ us /dʒesˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/
to make movements with your hands or arms, to express something or to emphasize what you are saying: (说话时)做手势,用手势表达,用动作(或姿态)示意
gesticulate wildlyThere was a man outside the window gesticulating wildly.有个人在窗外拼命地做手势。
Synonyms
gesture
motion
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Gestures & gesturing
air punch
air quotes
bat
beckon
bird
blow someone a kissphrase
flag something/someone down
flip
flip someone off
flip/give someone the birdidiom
flourish
non-verbal
non-verbally
peace sign
pump someone's handidiom
shake
shrug
signing
tongue
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Related word


gesticulation

gesticulate | American Dictionary


gesticulate
verb[ I ]
us/dʒeˈstɪk·jəˌleɪt/
to make movements with your hands or arms, esp. to help express something when you are speaking

Examples of gesticulate


gesticulate
The stance leg is nearly immobilized at midtransfer while the trunk gesticulates significantly.
In the distance a sweep shouts, gesticulating, from a chimney-top, while two cats on a damp slate roof spit and shriek.
He gesticulates with his arms in large and opulent movements in order to accentuate what he says.
Only when the person gesticulates or manifests their irritation at not being recognized, do you become aware of who they are.
So you gesticulate, draw pictures or otherwise try to find a common, if primitive, substitute language.
She ate her lunch, but gesticulated violently when eating.
They constantly gesticulate and gesture, as if reaching out to embrace experience.%!
Or from just stopping whatever one is doing to murmur often incomprehensible words while gesticulating several times a day?
Now the lift is going down, he naturally thinks that, in the national interest, if he gesticulates enough he will remain airborne.
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He has to gesticulate and express himself by writing, because of the dreaded disease on his lungs.
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The majority of people gesticulate at other drivers and can be irritating.
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He got up and saw no threatening gestures, but they seemed to be gesticulating in an argument or protest.
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I understand why he is gesticulating in that way.
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Perhaps he will listen to me rather than gesticulate triumphantly to those sitting behind him.
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However, she left me with a serious physiological dilemma: how to applaud her with one hand while gesticulating angrily to her with the other.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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