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boast1 verbboast2 noun boastboast1 /bəʊst $ boʊst/ ●●○ verb   boast1Origin: 1200-1300 Anglo-French bost ‘boasting’ VERB TABLEboast |
| Present | I, you, we, they | boast | | he, she, it | boasts | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | boasted | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have boasted | | he, she, it | has boasted | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had boasted | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will boast | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have boasted |
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| Present | I | am boasting | | he, she, it | is boasting | | you, we, they | are boasting | | Past | I, he, she, it | was boasting | | you, we, they | were boasting | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been boasting | | he, she, it | has been boasting | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been boasting | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be boasting | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been boasting |
- Each luxury home boasts an indoor pool and three-car garage.
- Hank was boasting that he could drink a case of beer by himself.
- I don't want to boast, but I was the first woman ever to win the competition.
- Scott was boasting about winning the game against Melrose High.
- She's always boasting about how clever her children are.
- The golf course is surrounded by hills and boasts some of the finest scenery in the country.
- The new athletic center boasts an Olympic-size swimming pool.
- Also, more than half of the associates can boast of perfect attendance records.
- He has an understanding equal to any public object, and possesses an energy of mind that few Men can boast of.
- It boasts a post box, stamp machine as well as an A/B button telephone.
- On the scaffold an unrepentant Jarman boasted of some sixty or seventy murders.
- She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom, which had been constructed from a third bedroom.
- The inside of the theater boasted more substantial fare.
► boast to talk too proudly about your abilities, achievements, or possessions because you want other people to admire you: · She’s always boasting about how good she is at languages. ► brag to boast in a way that annoys other people. Brag is more informal than boast: · He was bragging about how many girlfriends he had had.· I don’t think they have anything to brag about.· The rebels have repeatedly bragged that their fighters have been responsible for the mounting attacks on policemen, 226 of whom were killed last year. ► blow your own trumpet British English, blow your own horn American English spoken to talk a lot about your achievements – used especially when you want to mention your achievements but do not want to sound as if you are boasting: · I don’t want to blow my own trumpet, but it was me who came up with the idea for the project in the first place. ► crow to boast about something you have achieved, when other people have been less lucky or successful: · Nordstrom and his supporters are still crowing about winning the lawsuit. ► gloat to behave in a way that shows that you are proud of your own success and happy about someone else’s failure: · The Australians are still gloating over their victory over England.· The liberals are gloating and celebrating all over town.· I haven’t come to gloat! We all have to lose sometimes. ► be full of yourself informal to show by your words and behaviour that you are very proud of your abilities and achievements – used when you dislike someone because of this: · ‘He’s so full of himself,’ Constance complained. ‘He thinks he can get away with anything.’· After the game she was really full of herself. to boast about something► boast to talk too proudly about your abilities, achievements, or possessions because you want other people to admire you: boast about: · She's always boasting about how clever her children are.· Scott was boasting about winning the game against Melrose High.boast (that): · Hank was boasting that he could drink a case of beer by himself. ► brag to boast in a way that annoys other people: brag about: · I wish she'd stop bragging about how rich her parents are.brag (that): · Kevin used to brag that he'd had dozens of girlfriends. ► blow your own trumpet British spoken /horn American spoken to talk a lot about your achievements - used especially to say that you do not want to do this: · I don't want to blow my own trumpet, but it was me who came up with the idea for the project in the first place.· Garrison has plenty of reasons to blow his own horn - his company has just shown record profits. ► crow to boast about something you have achieved, especially when other people have been less lucky or successful: crow about/over: · Nordstrom and his supporters are still crowing about winning the lawsuit.· The crowd was crowing over Brazil's easy victory in the match. ► name-drop to frequently mention the names of famous or important people that you have met or spoken to, to make people think that you know them very well: · "I found the Prince of Wales to actually be quite witty and charming," said Edwina, name-dropping. someone who boasts a lot► boastful someone who is boastful boasts a lot: · After they had drunk more wine, they started to become loud and boastful.· In the weeks before the game, Ogden gave a number of boastful interviews to the press. ► big-headed British informal someone who is big-headed thinks that they are very important and shows this by often boasting about their abilities or achievements: · I don't want to sound big-headed, but I thought my picture was the best. ► be all talk spoken if you say that someone is all talk , you mean that they make all their plans and their achievements seem more impressive than they really are, and people should not believe them: · Ralph's all talk. I wouldn't take him too seriously if I were you. ► name-dropper someone who often mentions the names of famous or important people that they have met or spoken to, in order to make people admire them: · Anna is a distant relative of the prime minister, and she's one of the worst name-droppers I've ever met. to have a particular feature, quality, or ability► have also have got especially British · Although she's eighty she has an excellent memory.· Kids have wonderful imaginations, and it is natural for them to create imaginary friends.· The hotel only had two double rooms and they were both occupied.· The jacket has two side pockets and two more pockets inside.· Her brother's got long dark hair and blue eyes. ► with use this after a noun to describe the qualities or features that someone or something has: · We booked a room with a sea view.· The company needs more people with marketing experience.· Katrina's over there in front of that man with red hair. ► there is/there are use this to describe the things that a place has: · It's a big house - there are five bedrooms.· There are lots of old temples and gardens to visit in Kyoto.· There's an Olympic-sized swimming pool on campus. ► possess formal to have a particular ability, feature, or quality: · He possessed an unusual ability to learn languages quickly.· Like all towns and villages on Trinidad, it possessed a cricket ground.· The Western Highlands possess a beauty and a majesty found nowhere else in Britain. ► of especially written if someone or something is of a particular feature, quality, or ability, they have that feature etc, especially if it is something good: · Father was a man of great integrity and honesty.· an area of outstanding beauty· She was an actress of great skill. ► enjoy formal to have special advantages, conditions, abilities etc that are better than the ones that other people or things have: · Some of the workers enjoy a relatively high degree of job security.· When first introduced on the market, these products enjoyed great success. ► be blessed with to have something such as a useful ability, a good feature, or an important advantage - used formally or humorously: · Londoners are blessed with some of the very best Thai restaurants in the country.· Justine was unfortunately not blessed with a sense of humour.· Few gardens are blessed with an ideal site. ► be endowed with formal to have something good, especially a natural ability or social advantage: · Hugh was young, handsome, and endowed with the privileges of class and education.· Jefferson wrote that all citizens were endowed with "the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." ► boast if something such as a place, organization, or object boasts a good feature, it has that feature - used especially in advertisements and literature: · The golf course is surrounded by hills and boasts some of the finest scenery in the country.· Each luxury home boasts an indoor pool and three-car garage. ADVERB► also· The Ti'Ko range is not only remarkable for its price, it also boasts a technological breakthrough in graphics speed.· They also boast plenty of vitamins and minerals, chief among them vitamins C, B6 and iodine.· It also boasts four of the five highest peaks.· Today, this friendly city also boasts a dynamic shopping entertainment and sporting scene.· The man promoting the park in Ulster can also boast some pretty nifty soccer skills.· The South Slav nationalists of the nineteenth century could also boast of medieval greatness under Slav rulers.· The complex also boasted a dock on the Hudson River.· He also boasted that he had committed other serious crimes. ► now· No fewer than one in five homes in the United Kingdom now boasts an Activity Bear.· Froom a, quiet boutique business, McMullen now boasts some 40-odd products.· Similar schemes have proved successful elsewhere - one of the best-known being the Stroud Pound scheme, which now boasts 200 members.· Once the home of only a few sushi venues, our city now boasts a virtual tsunami of these eateries.· His team now boasts a dynamic edge, an insatiable hunger for success.· The boot now boasts a spoiler.· As well as its unparalleled choice of about 70 different champagnes, Oddbins now boasts around 50 tempting imitators.· Professional villainy now boasts an annual turnover of £14 billion. ► still· The mill still boasts its impressive chimney and mill clock, set in the front wall.· In the Forties Britain still boasted a thriving film industry. 1[intransitive, transitive] to talk too proudly about your abilities, achievements, or possessions:  ‘I wouldn’t be afraid,’ she boasted.boast that Amy boasted that her son was a genius.boast about He’s boasting about how much money he has made.boast of The company is inclined to boast of its success.2[transitive not in progressive] if a place, object, or organization boasts something, it has something that is very good: The city boasts two excellent museums. The Society boasts 3,000 members worldwide.—boaster noun [countable]THESAURUSboast to talk too proudly about your abilities, achievements, or possessions because you want other people to admire you: · She’s always boasting about how good she is at languages.brag to boast in a way that annoys other people. Brag is more informal than boast: · He was bragging about how many girlfriends he had had.· I don’t think they have anything to brag about.· The rebels have repeatedly bragged that their fighters have been responsible for the mounting attacks on policemen, 226 of whom were killed last year.blow your own trumpet British English, blow your own horn American English spoken to talk a lot about your achievements – used especially when you want to mention your achievements but do not want to sound as if you are boasting: · I don’t want to blow my own trumpet, but it was me who came up with the idea for the project in the first place.crow to boast about something you have achieved, when other people have been less lucky or successful: · Nordstrom and his supporters are still crowing about winning the lawsuit.gloat to behave in a way that shows that you are proud of your own success and happy about someone else’s failure: · The Australians are still gloating over their victory over England.· The liberals are gloating and celebrating all over town.· I haven’t come to gloat! We all have to lose sometimes.be full of yourself informal to show by your words and behaviour that you are very proud of your abilities and achievements – used when you dislike someone because of this: · ‘He’s so full of himself,’ Constance complained. ‘He thinks he can get away with anything.’· After the game she was really full of herself.boast1 verbboast2 noun boastboast2 ●○○ noun [countable] - During the campaign, he made a ridiculous boast that 30 million new jobs would be created if he won the election.
- Pat regretted her boast that she would be first to reach the top of the mountain.
- A boast, perhaps, but who can quarrel with it?
- Feffer had a strange need to cover himself with the brocade of boasts.
- Had anyone really connected his exorbitant fundraising practices to his boasts about providing girls for Bill?
- No boast, no brag, no chest-thumping, no combat fatigues.
- The establishment's boast was that if it wasn't on the menu, then you could take your pick for free.
► proud boast It is the company’s proud boast that it can deal with all a customer’s needs in one phone call. ► an empty/idle/vain boast (=a false statement that something is good or possible) ‘Making knowledge work’ is the university’s phrase, and it is no idle boast (=not a boast, but true). something that you like telling people because you are proud of it: It is the company’s proud boast that it can deal with all a customer’s needs in one phone call. Philip’s boast is that he started out without any outside financial backing.an empty/idle/vain boast (=a false statement that something is good or possible) ‘Making knowledge work’ is the university’s phrase, and it is no idle boast (=not a boast, but true). |