bluffing

/bluhf/US // blʌf //UK // (blʌf) //

虚张声势,虚张声势的行为,虚张声势的做法,虚张声势的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
bluff·er, bluff·est.
- : good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
- : presenting a bold and nearly perpendicular front, as a coastline: a bluff, precipitous headland.
- : Nautical. having a full, blunt form.

n.名词 noun

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- : a cliff, headland, or hill with a broad, steep face.
- : North Dakota, Wisconsin, and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. a clump or grove of trees on a prairie or other generally treeless area.

verbdeceive

Synonyms

Recent bluff collapses in San Diego have sparked conversations about public safety on beaches.
Bluff erosion — even catastrophic bluff collapse — is a natural process that has been occurring in San Diego for thousands of years.
More people could die from bluff collapses if nothing is done.
The genesis for the bill was the tragic August 2019 bluff collapse in Encinitas that took the lives of three people.
That same year, another bluff collapse in Del Mar destabilized a set of train tracks regularly carrying passengers between Los Angeles and San Diego.
Nor would the dangers end there even if Obama were not bluffing; Putin might think he was bluffing anyway and start a war.
As menacing as those automatic rifles were, I felt the Somalis were bluffing.
Even a bluffing superpower can be forced to ante up ... or perhaps fold as casualties mount and treasury accounts go bust.
It may sound absurd at first flush, but politics and poker have a lot more than just bluffing in common.
Jonathan Chait thinks Speaker Boehner is bluffing on allowing the sequestration to take place.
They got somebody, or else they were only bluffing when they waved that scalp.
Mike grinned, remembering the time he had driven a robot brain daffy by bluffing it at poker.

/bluhf/US // blʌf //UK // (blʌf) //

虚张声势,虚张声势的行为,虚张声势的做法,虚张声势的

adj.形容词 adjective

1
bluff·er, bluff·est.
- : good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
- : presenting a bold and nearly perpendicular front, as a coastline: a bluff, precipitous headland.
- : Nautical. having a full, blunt form.

n.名词 noun

1
- : a cliff, headland, or hill with a broad, steep face.
- : North Dakota, Wisconsin, and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. a clump or grove of trees on a prairie or other generally treeless area.

verbdeceive

Synonyms

Recent bluff collapses in San Diego have sparked conversations about public safety on beaches.
Bluff erosion — even catastrophic bluff collapse — is a natural process that has been occurring in San Diego for thousands of years.
More people could die from bluff collapses if nothing is done.
The genesis for the bill was the tragic August 2019 bluff collapse in Encinitas that took the lives of three people.
That same year, another bluff collapse in Del Mar destabilized a set of train tracks regularly carrying passengers between Los Angeles and San Diego.
Nor would the dangers end there even if Obama were not bluffing; Putin might think he was bluffing anyway and start a war.
As menacing as those automatic rifles were, I felt the Somalis were bluffing.
Even a bluffing superpower can be forced to ante up ... or perhaps fold as casualties mount and treasury accounts go bust.
It may sound absurd at first flush, but politics and poker have a lot more than just bluffing in common.
Jonathan Chait thinks Speaker Boehner is bluffing on allowing the sequestration to take place.
They got somebody, or else they were only bluffing when they waved that scalp.
Mike grinned, remembering the time he had driven a robot brain daffy by bluffing it at poker.