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Adjective blustering has 1 sense
- blustering, blusterous, blustery, gusty - blowing in loud and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day"; "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind"
Antonym: calm (indirect, via stormy)
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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