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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Boast \Boast\, v. t.
     1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with
        pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to
        self-commendation; to extol.
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              Lest bad men should boast
              Their specious deeds.                 --Milton.
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     2. To display vaingloriously.
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     3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
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     To boast one's self, to speak with unbecoming confidence
        in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the
        thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic]
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              Boast not thyself of to-morrow.       --Prov. xxvii.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Boast \Boast\, v. t.
     1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with
        pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to
        self-commendation; to extol.
  
              Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     2. To display vaingloriously.
  
     3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
  
     To boast one's self, to speak with unbecoming confidence
        in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the
        thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic]
  
              Boast not thyself of to-morrow.       --Prov. xxvii.
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From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  to boast one`s self /tə bˈəʊst wˈɒn ˈɛs sˈɛlf/
  1. dicsôíti önmagát
  2. magasztalja önmagát

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