Synonyms of the word

bluster

• n. Pompous, officious talk.
• n. A gust of wind.
• n. Fitful noise and violence.
• v. To speak or protest loudly.
• v. To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
• v. To blow in strong or sudden gusts.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

amplify

• v. (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers,…
• v. (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars,…
• v. (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

behave

• v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
• v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
• v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

blast

• n. A violent gust of wind.
• n. A forcible stream of air from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
• n. A hit from a pipe.
• n. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
• n. The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an…
• n. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
• n. An explosive charge for blasting.
• n. A loud, sudden sound.
• n. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
• n. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
• n. A flatulent disease of sheep.
• n. (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) An algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information.
• v. (transitive) To confound by a loud blast or din.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
• v. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
• v. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
• v. (transitive) To curse; to damn.
• v. (transitive) (sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
• v. (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
• v. To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
• v. (transitive) To blight or wither.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To blow, for example on a trumpet.
• interj. Blast it; damn it.
• n. (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

boast

• n. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
• n. (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
• v. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
• v. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
• v. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
• v. (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
• v. (ergative) To possess something special.
• v. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
• v. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form…

boasting

• v. present participle of boast.
• n. The making of boasts.

brag

• adj. First-rate.
• adj. (archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
• adv. (obsolete) proudly; boastfully.
• n. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
• n. The thing which is boasted of.
• n. (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
• v. (intransitive) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done.
• v. (transitive) To boast of.

braggadocio

• n. A braggart.
• n. Empty boasting.

bravado

• n. A swaggering show of defiance or courage.
• n. A false show of courage.

confusion

• n. A lack of clarity or order.
• n. The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
• n. (archaic) A state of shame or embarrassment.

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

exaggerate

• v. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

fanfare

• n. (countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting…
• n. (uncountable) A show of ceremony or celebration.
• v. To play a fanfare.
• v. (music) To embellish with fanfares.
• v. To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.
• v. To introduce with pomp and show.
• v. To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.
• v. To publicize or announce.
• v. To fan out.

flash

• v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
• v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
• v. To be visible briefly.
• v. To make visible briefly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
• v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
• v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
• v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
• v. To communicate quickly.
• v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
• v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
• v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
• v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
• v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
• v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
• v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
• n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
• n. A very short amount of time.
• n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
• n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
• n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
• n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
• n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
• n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
• n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
• adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
• adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
• n. A pool.
• n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

gas

• n. (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained…
• n. (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
• n. (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane)…
• n. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
• n. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
• n. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
• n. (baseball) A fastball.
• v. (transitive) To kill with poisonous gas.
• v. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit gas.
• v. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
• v. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
• n. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
• n. (US) Gas pedal.
• v. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
• v. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
• adj. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing.

gasconade

• n. Boastful talk.
• adj. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.
• v. (obsolete, derogatory) To talk boastfully.

gust

• n. A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
• n. Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To blow in gusts.
• n. (archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
• n. Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
• n. Intellectual taste; fancy.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To taste.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To have a relish for.

hyperbolize

• v. (intransitive, now rare) To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To represent or talk about with hyperbole.

jactitation

• n. bragging or boasting, especially in a false manner to another's detriment.
• n. (medicine) extreme restlessness; tossing and turning in bed.

magnify

• v. (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
• v. (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify,…
• v. (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
• v. (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

ostentation

• n. Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
• n. (obsolete) A show or spectacle.

overdraw

• v. To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft.
• v. (archery) To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow.
• n. Commonly described in graphics technical terms as the process by which during the rendering of a scene,…
• n. A value determining/describing “Overdraw” or “Overdraw factor” is commonly the number of times each pixel…

overstate

• v. To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

rhodomontade

• n. Dated spelling of rodomontade.
• v. Dated spelling of rodomontade.

rodomontade

• adj. Pretentiously boastful.
• n. Vain boasting; a rant; pretentious behaviour.
• v. To boast, brag or bluster pretentiously.

self-praise

• n. The praise of oneself; self-applause.

swagger

• v. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
• v. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
• n. Confidence, pride.
• n. A bold or arrogant strut.
• n. A prideful boasting or bragging.
• n. (Australia, historical) Synonym of swagman.

swash

• n. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
• n. (typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
• n. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or…
• n. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
• n. (obsolete) A blustering noise.
• n. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
• n. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
• n. (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
• v. (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
• v. (intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
• v. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
• adj. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

tout

• n. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
• n. A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
• v. (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
• v. (obsolete) To look upon or watch.
• v. (Britain, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc…
• v. (US, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation…
• v. (Britain, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or…
• v. (US, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
• v. "tout for": to look for, try to obtain.
• n. (card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

vaunt

• v. (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
• v. (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
• v. (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
• n. A boast; an instance of vaunting.
• n. (obsolete) The first part.