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breast

UK/bɾɛst/ US/bɹɛst/ common
noun (3) verb (3)

noun

1.

the front part of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen

  • “he beat his breast in anger”
2.

either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

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3.

meat carved from the breast of a fowl

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verb

1.

meet at breast level

  • “The runner breasted the tape”
2.

reach the summit

  • “They breasted the mountain”
3.

confront bodily

  • “breast the storm”
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Origin

From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”).

Phrases

  • bare one's breast
  • beat one's breast
  • breast augmentation
  • breast bone
  • breast boobily
  • breast cancer
  • breast cleavage
  • breast down

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