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vaunt

/vawnt, vahnt/US // vɔnt, vɑnt //UK // (vɔːnt) //

夸奖,夸赞,夸耀,夸张

Related Words

prate侈谈,侈靡,侈靡不振,侈奢boast夸口说,夸耀,夸夸其谈,夸口crow乌鸦,人群,人群中,人群中的gasconade煤气中毒,煤气罐,煤气康德,煤气爆炸strut大步流星,大摇大摆地走过来,大摇大摆地走出去,大摇大摆地走过来的brag吹牛,吹嘘,自吹自擂,吹牛逼flaunt炫耀,标榜,夸耀,炫耀一下display展示,展示的,展示的是

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to speak vaingloriously of; boast of: to vaunt one's achievements.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to speak boastfully; brag.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a boastful action or utterance.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Forms: vaunted
Synonyms
boast夸口说,夸耀,夸夸其谈,夸口brag吹牛,吹嘘,自吹自擂,吹牛逼crow乌鸦,人群,人群中,人群中的display展示,展示的,展示的是flaunt炫耀,标榜,夸耀,炫耀一下gasconade煤气中毒,煤气罐,煤气康德,煤气爆炸prate侈谈,侈靡,侈靡不振,侈奢strut大步流星,大摇大摆地走过来,大摇大摆地走出去,大摇大摆地走过来的

Examples

  • This much-vaunted turnout operation turns out not to have deserved much vaunt.

  • I might have guessed that in some such cutthroat manner would your vaunt of winning me at the sword-point be accomplished.

  • Caroline should keep watch over herself; you vaunt silence as the surest method of being witty.

  • He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric.

  • Such men our modern universities appropriately claim the right to vaunt proudly as the products of their training.

  • No person is to vaunt himself above others or find fault with the efforts of others while lauding his own.

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