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boast
Meaning: to speak with excessive pride about one's achievements or possessions
boast in a sentence
How boast is used in real sentences:
He loved to boast about his fishing trophies at every family gathering.
During the team dinner, the star player couldn't stop boasting about the winning goal he scored.
“Mira finished first, then began to boast that no dolphin could match her clever arms.”
— from the passage The Lantern Captain
Synonyms for boast
Other words for boast — brag and crow — carry the same meaning.
- brag
- crow
Antonyms of boast
Words that mean the opposite of boast:
- downplay
- minimize
- understate
Where it comes from
From Anglo-Norman bost 'a boast, threat'
Memory hook
BOAST rhymes with 'toast' — someone boasting always wants a toast to their own greatness.