Brandishing Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "WAVING" which means:

noun
• • The act of signaling by a movement of the hand
verb
• • To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
• • To put aside, avoid.
• • To outlaw (someone).
• • To abandon, give up (someone or something).
• • To move from side to side; to sway.
• • To stray, wander.
• • To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
• • To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
• • (metonymic) 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.
• • To have an undulating or wavy form.
• • To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
• • To produce waves to the hair.
• • To swing and miss at a pitch.
• • To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
• • (metonymic) to signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
• • To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
• • To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

An example sentence would be:

• • "She was waving goodbye to her friends as the train pulled away."
• • "The flag was waving in the wind."

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