boast

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

boasts

1.
A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
2.
Something that one brags about.
It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
3.
(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

boasts

V_ing/Gerund

boasting

V_ed/pp

boasted

1.
(intransitive)To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
2.
(transitive)(used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
3.
(obsolete)To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
4.
(squash) To play a boast shot.
5.
(transitive)To possess (a special and desirable quality).
The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.
His family boasted a famous name.
6.
(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
7.
(sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

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Đồng nghĩa

brag crow vauntbrag, crow, vaunt

Trái nghĩa

depreciate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unboastedboastfulboastfullyboastworthyoutboastboastinglyunboastingboasterboastiveboastlessboastlyboastsomeoverboast

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English bosten, from bost (boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity), probably of origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad).