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wave

English

  1. 🔊 a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
    “a wave of settlers”
  2. 🔊 a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
  3. 🔊 the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
  4. 🔊 (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
  5. 🔊 one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
  6. 🔊 something that rises rapidly
    “a wave of emotion swept over him”
  7. 🔊 a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy
  8. 🔊 a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
    “a heat wave”
  9. 🔊 an undulating curve
  10. 🔊 set waves in
    “she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair”
  11. 🔊 signal with the hands or nod
    “She waved to her friends”
  12. 🔊 twist or roll into coils or ringlets
    “curl my hair, please”
  13. 🔊 move or swing back and forth
    “She waved her gun”
  14. 🔊 move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
    “The curtains undulated”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ondulatorio wave
  2. 🔊 ondular to wave
  3. 🔊 saludar to wave
  4. 🔊 tremolar to wave
  5. 🔊 oleada wave, surge
  6. 🔊 agitar to wave, to flail
  7. 🔊 ondear to wave, undulate

Similar words

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