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verb (used without object)
1.
to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
verb (used with object)
2.
to express by gesturing.
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Gesticulating
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Origin:
1595–1605; < Latin gesticulātus (past participle of gesticulārī), equivalent to Late Latin (assumed in Latin ) gesticul(us) gesture (diminutive of gestus; see gestic, -cule1) + -ātus -ate1
1595–1605; < Latin gesticulātus (past participle of gesticulārī), equivalent to Late Latin (assumed in Latin ) gesticul(us) gesture (diminutive of gestus; see gestic, -cule1) + -ātus -ate1
Related forms
ges·tic·u·la·tor, noun
o·ver·ges·tic·u·late, verb, -lat·ed, -lat·ing.
o·ver·ges·tic·u·la·tive, adjective
o·ver·ges·tic·u·la·tive·ly, adverb
EXPANDun·ges·tic·u·lat·ing, adjective
un·ges·tic·u·la·tive, adjective
un·ges·tic·u·la·to·ry, adjective
COLLAPSESynonyms
1. gesture, motion, wave, signal.
1. gesture, motion, wave, signal.
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Example Sentences
- The gallery was always filled with sobbing or gesticulating wives, girlfriends and daughters.
- But the far from sedate satiric choreography kept them frantically gesticulating.
- Their victims had been merely shouting and gesticulating.
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Word Origin & History
gesticulate
c.1600, from pp. stem of L. gesticulari "to gesture, mimic," from gesticulus "a mimicking gesture," dim. of gestus "gesture, carriage, posture" (see gest).
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