Thesaurus: wave

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1. v. t. See Waive.
2. v. i. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
3. v. i. To be moved to and fro as a signal.
4. v. i. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
5. v. t. To move one way and the other; to brandish.
6. v. t. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
7. v. t. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
8. v. t. To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
9. v. i. An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
10. v. i. A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
11. v. i. Water; a body of water.
12. v. i. Unevenness; inequality of surface.
13. v. i. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
14. v. i. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
15. v. i. Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
16. n. Woe.