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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wiggle back and forth |
| Synonyms: | beat, bob, fish-tail, flutter, lash, move side to side, nod, oscillate, quiver, rock, shake, shimmy, stir, sway, swing, switch, twitch, vibrate, waggle, wave |
| Main Entry: | flourish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wave about |
| Synonyms: | brandish, display, flaunt, flutter, shake, sweep, swing, swish, twirl, vaunt, wag, wield |
| Main Entry: | oscillate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change back and forth |
| Synonyms: | be unsteady, dangle, fishtail, flicker, fluctuate, librate, lurch, palpitate, pendulate, pitch, pivot, reel, ripple, rock, roll, seesaw, stagger, sway, swing, switch, swivel, teeter, teeter-totter, thrash, toss, totter, undulate, vacillate, vary, vibrate, waddle, wag, waggle, waltz, wave, waver, whirl, wiggle, wobble |
| Notes: | oscillate means to be undecided about something or regularly swing from side to side, while osculate means to kiss or to come together - in mathematics it means to have three or more points coincident with |
| Antonyms: | remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | swing |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move back and forth; be suspended |
| Synonyms: | avert, away, be pendent, curve, dangle, deflect, divert, flap, fluctuate, hang, lurch, oscillate, palpitate, pendulate, pitch, pivot, reel, revolve, rock, roll, rotate, sheer, shunt, suspend, sway, swerve, swivel, turn, turn about, turn on an axis, twirl, undulate, vary, veer, vibrate, volte-face, wag, waggle, wave, wheel, whirl, wiggle, wobble |
| Main Entry: | waggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shake |
| Synonyms: | bobble, flourish, flutter, jerk, jiggle, joggle, quiver, twitch, wag, wave, wiggle |
| Main Entry: | wave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move back and forth; gesture |
| Synonyms: | beckon, billow, brandish, coil, curl, direct, falter, flap, flourish, flow, fluctuate, flutter, fly, gesticulate, indicate, motion, move to and fro, oscillate, palpitate, pulsate, pulse, quaver, quiver, reel, ripple, seesaw, shake, sign, signal, stir, stream, surge, sway, swell, swing, swirl, swish, switch, tremble, twirl, twist, undulate, vacillate, vibrate, wag, waggle, waver, whirl, wield, wigwag, wobble |
| Main Entry: | wiggle |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | shake back and forth |
| Synonyms: | jerk, jiggle, shimmy, squirm, twist, twitch, wag, waggle, wave, worm, wriggle, writhe, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | wriggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | maneuver out of; wiggle |
| Synonyms: | convulse, crawl, dodge, extricate oneself, glide, jerk, jiggle, ooze, skew, slink, slip, snake, sneak, squirm, turn, twist, twitch, wag, waggle, worm, writhe, zigzag |
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