Usually means: Expressing oneself through hand movements.
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  1. gesticulate: Merriam-Webster
  2. gesticulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gesticulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gesticulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gesticulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. gesticulate: Wordnik
  7. gesticulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gesticulate: Wiktionary
  9. gesticulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gesticulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gesticulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gesticulate, gesticulate: Dictionary.com
  13. gesticulate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gesticulate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gesticulate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gesticulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gesticulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gesticulate: Rhymezone
  19. Gesticulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gesticulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gesticulate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gesticulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gesticulate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gesticulate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. gesticulate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gesticulate: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gesticulate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gesticulate)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To say or express through gestures.

Similar:
gesture, motion, pantomime, act out, giggit, glance, wave, walk, vagulate, move, more...

Opposite:
still, motionless, inactive, quiet

Types:
wave, flail, flap, gesture, wag, beckon, signal, more...
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Similar:
gesture, motion, pantomime, act out, giggit, glance, wave, walk, vagulate, move, more...

Opposite:
still, motionless, inactive, quiet

Types:
wave, flail, flap, gesture, wag, beckon, signal, more...



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