Boast vs Bloated - What's the difference?
boast | bloated |
A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
* (John Milton)
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, title= (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
* Bible, Psalms xiiv. 8
(squash) To play a .
(ergative) To possess something special.
(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
(sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
(bloat)
Swollen with fluid or gas.
Excessively or extremely large or wealthy.
(computing) Describing software which is overloaded with features, known as bloatware.
(of food) Slightly salted and lightly smoked (as in bloated herring).
As verbs the difference between boast and bloated
is that boast is to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself or boast can be (masonry) to dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel while bloated is (bloat).As a noun boast
is a brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.As an adjective bloated is
swollen with fluid or gas.boast
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boosten, bosten, from .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- On no account will he or any other kind be able to boast that he's escaped the pursuit of those who can follow so detailed and comprehensive a method of enquiry.
- Lest bad men should boast / Their specious deeds.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
- In God we boast all the day long.
Synonyms
* bragDerived terms
* boastful * boastfully * outboastEtymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- (Weale)