0 past simple and past participle of gloat
1 to feel or express great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else's failure or bad luck:
She's continually gloating over/about her new job.
His enemies were quick to gloat at his humiliation.
[ + speech ] "This is our fourth victory in a row," he gloated.
It may not have been destroyed; it may be secretly gloated over in solitude somewhere.
He described it, revelled in it and gloated over it, yet we heard not one whit about what he would do about it.
He gloated about what is happening in the stock market.
We want to be told the whole truth, but we do not want to be gloated over.
The pioneers of electricity gloated over the impending doom of gas.
They have gloated over these matters, and the miseries to which the country may be subjected.
Here was an opportunity for the coalowners of this country to show real harmonious cooperation, and they came along and secured their full pound of flesh, and gloated over it.
In it, he gloated over the play being kept from performance and stated that the government did not accept the play.
