Another word for wave
wave
n.
A wall of water
comber, swell, roller, heave, tidal wave, billow, tide, surge, crest, bore, tube, breaker, whitecap, ripple, curl*.
A movement suggestive of a wave
surge, gush, swell, uprising, onslaught, influx, tide, flow, stream, come and go, swarm, drift, rush, crush, line after line, fluctuation.
Undulating movement
rocking, bending, winding, coil, curl, roll, twirl, loop, swirl, swing, sway, corkscrew, spring, lift, rippling.
A line suggestive of a wave
scroll, kink, convolution, meander, loop, wavy line, twist, volute, curlicue.
wave is the general word for a curving ridge or swell in the surface of the ocean or other body of water; ripple is used of the smallest kind of wave, such as that caused by a breeze ruffling the surface of water; roller is applied to any of the large, heavy, swelling waves that roll in to the shore, as during a storm; breaker is applied to such a wave when it breaks, or is about to break, into foam upon the shore or upon rocks; billow is a somewhat poetic or rhetorical term for a great, heaving ocean wave
wave
v.
To flutter
stream, pulse, flow, shake, fly, dance, flap, swish, swing, tremble, whirl.
To give an alternating movement
motion, beckon, call, raise the arm, signal, greet, return a greeting, hail.
To move back and forth
falter, waver, oscillate, vacillate, fluctuate, pulsate, vibrate, wag, waggle, sway, lurch, bend, swing, dangle, seesaw, wobble, reel, quaver, quiver, swing from side to side, palpitate, move to and fro; see also rock.
To undulate
surge, roll, flow, wind, swell, billow, curl, twirl, swirl, coil, ripple, twist.
To set hair
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Another word for wave
To move to and fro vigorously and usually repeatedly:
switch, wag1, waggle. See repetitionTo move or cause to move about while being fixed at one edge:
flap, flutter, fly. See repetitionTo move (one's arms or wings, for example) up and down:
beat, flap, flitter, flop, flutter, waggle. See repetitionTo wield boldly and dramatically:
brandish, flourish, sweep. See expressTo have or cause to have a curved or sinuous form or surface:
curl, curve, undulate. See straight
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