boast
/boʊst/ verb C2- To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
- To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
He/she/it boasts · Past boasted · Past participle boasted · -ing form boasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- boast
- He/she/it
- boasts
- Past
- boasted
- Past participle
- boasted
- -ing form
- boasting
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They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess.
Its owner lit it again, and said: “Boast no more, but henceforth be content to give thy light in silence.
Keep your journey a secret; do not boast of what you have come to Paris to do, or have done; return with all speed; enter Marseilles at night, and your house by the back-door, and there remain, quiet, submissive, secret, and, above all, inoffensive; for this time, I swear to you, we shall act like powerful men who know their enemies.
It gave her all the animation that her spirits could boast; for she was in no cheerful humour.
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