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flail

verb as in beat, strike

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But I couldn’t predict how bizarre her flailing would be, especially after she publicly hugged Vance in a way that stoked widespread rumors that the two are more than friends.

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I just flail for her hand, only barely brushing it before we fall into the chasm.

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Calmly the captain picked up the boy by the back of his coat and moved him, arms flailing, to sit on his mother’s other side, uncomfortably squeezed between his parents.

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Lawrence’s Grace needs help and the more she flails, the worse she makes things.

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Shout it as loud as a Will Smith home run, ball soaring, arms flailing, blue immortality awaiting.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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