Usually means: Wave or display something threateningly.
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  1. brandish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. brandish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brandish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brandish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brandish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brandish, brandish: Wordnik
  7. brandish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brandish: Wiktionary
  9. brandish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brandish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brandish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brandish, brandish: Dictionary.com
  13. brandish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brandish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Brandish (disambiguation), Brandish (series), Brandish (video game), Brandish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brandish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brandish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brandish: Rhymezone
  19. Brandish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brandish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. brandish: Free Dictionary
  22. brandish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. brandish: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. brandish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. brandish: Legal dictionary

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  1. brandish: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating anger, threat or skill.
verb:  (transitive) To bear something with ostentatious show.
noun:  The act of flourishing or waving.

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