Difference between Brandish and Wave

Brandish

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of flourishing or waving.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill. To bear something with ostentatious show.

Wave

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move back and forth repeatedly.To wave one's hand in greeting or departure.To have an undulating or wavy form.To swing and miss at a pitch.To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.To try, in public, to attract people into a business establishment.To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; undulation.A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.A shape which alternately curves in opposite directions.A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.A sideway movement of the hand(s).

Example sentence: The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.