Synonyms of the word

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

exaggerate

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

feature

• n. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
• n. An important or main item.
• n. (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently…
• n. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
• n. (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
• n. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty,…
• n. (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and…
• n. (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer,…
• v. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
• v. (transitive) To star, to contain.
• v. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

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.

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

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.

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.

self-praise

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

sport

• n. (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that…
• n. (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
• n. (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner, a good sport.
• n. (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
• n. (obsolete) Mockery; derision.
• n. (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
• n. (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
• n. (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some…
• n. (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
• n. (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
• n. (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question).
• n. (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
• v. (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
• v. (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
• v. (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
• v. (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
• v. (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
• v. To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
• v. To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species;…
• v. (transitive) To close (a door).

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.