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presumir — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bluff verb To pretend to be stronger, more confident, or more prepared than you really are, in order to deceive or intimidate.
  • boast noun A statement that shows off one's own achievements or qualities; a brag.
  • brag verb To talk about your own achievements, possessions, or abilities with excessive pride.
  • flaunt verb To show something off in an obvious, sometimes boastful way.
  • guess verb To form an answer or opinion without being sure it's correct.
  • surmise verb To guess or conclude something without solid proof.
  • tout verb To promote or praise something enthusiastically, often to sell it.

Senses

presumir is used for these senses in English:

  • boast (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
  • brag (intransitive, often with of) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.
  • guess (chiefly, US) to suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
  • surmise (intransitive) To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
  • tout (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag about; to promote.

bluff — full definition

  1. verb To pretend to be stronger, more confident, or more prepared than you really are, in order to deceive or intimidate.
  2. noun An act of pretending to be stronger or more confident than you really are.
  3. noun A steep cliff or bank, often beside a river or the sea.

boast — full definition

  1. noun A statement that shows off one's own achievements or qualities; a brag.
  2. verb To talk with excessive pride about oneself or one's achievements.
  3. verb To have (something impressive) as a feature; to be proud to possess.

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