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Noun bluster has 4 senses
- bluster - noisy confusion and turbulence; "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations"
--1 is a kind of confusion
- bravado, bluster - a swaggering show of courage
--2 is a kind of ostentation, fanfare
- bluster - a violent gusty wind
--3 is a kind of gust, blast, blow
- braggadocio, bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontade - vain and empty boasting
--4 is a kind of boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
Verb bluster has 3 senses
- bluster - blow hard; be gusty, as of wind; "A southeaster blustered onshore"; "The flames blustered"
--1 is one way to blow
Sample sentence:
It is ----ing
- boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade - show off
--2 is one way to overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody
- swagger, bluster, swash - act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
--3 is one way to act, behave, do
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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