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# bluster

«bluster» in Mova's school dictionary: **loud, angry talk or threats with little real force behind it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural); verb (blusters, blustered, blustering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bluster is loud, angry talk or threats with little real force behind it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluster/#m1)

2) To bluster is to talk loudly and boldly without much meaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluster/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, bluster is noisy show that gets nowhere; kindness and persuasion work better than bluster

### examples

- He tried bluster, but nobody was afraid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluster/#x1)
- The bully blustered at the referee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluster/#x2)
- Gentle words win where bluster fails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluster/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bluster» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluster/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.