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Crow

To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bluster 76% connected

To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

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Boast 76% connected

To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's se…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Boasting 76% connected

of Boast

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Brag 76% connected

To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boas…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cry 76% connected

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Gas 76% connected

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gasconade 76% connected

A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.

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Jactitation 76% connected

Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim.

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Self-praise 76% connected

Praise of one's self.

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Sioux 76% connected

See Dakotas.

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Swash 76% connected

An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

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Tout 76% connected

To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.

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Utter 76% connected

Outer.

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Vaunt 76% connected

To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Congratulate 76% connected

To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.

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Preen 76% connected

A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.

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Gloat 74% connected

To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Gloat 74% connected

To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 7

Brag 92% connected

To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boas…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Bragging 92% connected

of Brag

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Crowing 92% connected

of Crow

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gasconade 92% connected

A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gloat 92% connected

To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Triumph 92% connected

A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vaporing 92% connected

of Vapor

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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