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Definition of boast : 1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, - sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
3. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self- commendation; to extol.
4. To display vaingloriously.
5. To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
6. To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
7. To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
8. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
9. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.

Synonyms:

go down on, muck up, rollick, bungle, waste, spoil, flub, frisk, fellate, lark, bumble, splosh, bollocks, swash, bollix, shove along, fanfaronade, mess up, jactation, burn out, fumble, ostentation, owned, have, gas, show, tout, foul up, bragging, blow out, pageant, screw up, enjoy, flourish, skylark, plash, splash, praise, source of pride, pomposity, shoot a line, botch, splatter, float, pageantry, mishandle, bobble, gasconade, bollix up, command, spatter, vaunting, shove off, rodomontade, drift, cavort, display, bodge, romp, muff, louse up, avowal, run around, botch up, sport, pomp, feature, ball up, hold, boasting, possess, be adrift, bollocks up, frolic, disport, suck, fluff, squander, jactitation, self-satisfaction, pompousness, gambol, lark about

boast (part of speech: verb)

self-praise, vaunt, bombast, pretension, saunter, brag, flaunt, aggrandize, pontificate, bluff, prance, self-approbation, cock-a-doodle-doo, vanity, braggadocio, gloat, crow, parade, peacock, preen, Lord, blow, strut, bravado, bluster, swagger

pride (part of speech: verb)

glory, esteem, pride, honor

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