HOW TO PRONOUNCE
gesticulate
/d͡ʒɛsˈtɪkjəleɪt/
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What does gesticulate mean?
verb
- To make gestures or motions, as in speaking.
- To say or express through gestures.
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IPA pronunciation
/d͡ʒɛsˈtɪkjəleɪt/
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This is particularly the case with people who are somewhat theatrical and hence gesticulate too much.
When the first man got to the top of the ridge, he began to wave his arms about and gesticulate like a madman.
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"Suddenly the wasps begin to fall as though struck by lightning; for a few moments the abdomen quivers and the legs gesticulate, then finally remain inert, like a clockwork machine whose spring has run down to the last coil."
Just as, with you, the deaf and dumb, if once allowed to gesticulate and to use the hand-alphabet, will never acquire the more difficult but far more valuable art of lip-speech and lip-reading, so it is with us as regards “Seeing” and “Feeling.”
Perpetually moving, she was yet constantly graceful, and while she twisted her body and turned her head, with charming hands that never ceased to gesticulate, and little, conscious, brilliant eyes that looked everywhere at once--eyes that seemed to chatter even faster than her lips--she made you forget the nonsense she poured forth, or think of it only as a part of her personal picturesqueness.