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Antonyms for
wave
To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
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All Definitions for Wave

Below are all the dictionary definitions of wave:

1To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
2To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
3To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand
4To signify by waving
5To beckon
6To signal
7To indicate.
8To have an undulating or wavy form.
9To raise into inequalities of surface
10To give an undulating form or surface to.
11To style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.
12To swing and miss at a pitch.
13To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
14To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
15To move like a wave, or by floating
16To waft.
17A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid
18An undulation.
19The ocean.
20A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
21A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
22Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
23A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
24A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
25Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking.
26A movement or trend in popular culture.
27One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
28A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
29To generate a wave.
30To fluctuate
31To waver
32To be in an unsettled state.
33A members of the WAVES
34A member of the US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve).
35Obsolete spelling of waive. [(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.)
36To give up claim to
37To forgo.]

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