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overboast

overboast verb: to boast excessively.

Verb

overboast (third-person singular simple present overboasts, present participle overboasting, simple past and past participle overboasted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To boast excessively.

Forms of overboast

third-person singular presentoverboasts
present participleoverboasting
past participleoverboasted
pastoverboasted

Origin of overboast

From over- + boast.

Questions about overboast

What does overboast mean?
Overboast means to boast excessively.
What part of speech is overboast?
Overboast is a verb.
What is the past tense of overboast?
The past tense of overboast is overboasted.

Words near overboast in the dictionary

  1. overblows
  2. overboard
  3. overboarded
  4. overboarding
  5. overboards
  6. overboast
  7. overboasted
  8. overboastful
  9. overboasting
  10. overboasts
  11. overbode

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