boast
/bəʊst/ verbDefinition
PRIDE [I, T] › to talk with too much pride about what you have done or what you own: I wish she would stop boasting about her exam results. [+ that] Liam boasted that he owned two sports cars.
HAVE [T] › If a place boasts something good, it has it: New York boasts some of the best museums in the world.
(Definition of boast verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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