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gloat (verb), gloats; gloated; gloating
1. To exhibit a conspicuous and sometimes malevolent pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune: After a difficult campaign, the winners were gloating over their victory of the election.
2. To triumph, to relish, to revel in: When Sam won the tennis championship, he gloated about it in front of the loser.
To regard with excessive pleasure or satisfaction.
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