gesturing

Verb

gesture (third-person singular simple present gestures, present participle gesturing, simple past and past participle gestured)

1. (intransitive) To make a gesture or gestures.
   • My dad told me never to gesture with my hands when I talk.

   Synonyms:

   gesticulate

2. (transitive) To express (something) by a gesture or gestures.
   • He gestured his disgust.
3. (transitive) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action.
   • It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
4. (transitive) To express or signal (to someone) by a gesture or gestures (to do something, go somewhere, etc).
   • […] she sweepingly gestured him to the pillory — a chair upon the platform, facing the school. Here he suffered for the unusual term of an hour, with many jocular and cunning eyes constantly upon him; and, when he was released at noon, horrid shouts […]1915, Booth Tarkington, “Wednesday Madness”, in The Cosmopolitan, page 61

See all 8 meanings of gesture