breast has definitions from the fields of zoology,anatomy,sexuality,food
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[ noun ] (zoology) the front part of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen

Examples

"he beat his breast in anger"

Used in print

(Leon Uris, Mila 8....)

All_of them were there in this loosely_knit association of diversified ideologies , and each berated the other and beat his breast for his own approaches .

(E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)

The clocks struck seven-thirty as they approached the hotel entrance ; and hopes that the chambermaid and patronne would still be abed began to rise in Alex 's well exercised breast .

(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)

When it was worn in the breast , or even on the sleeve , we at_least knew where it was '' .

Related terms

body_part bosom thorax

2
[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology,sexuality) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

Recently , for_example , a paranoid woman 's large-scale philosophizing , in the session , about the intrusive curiosity which has become , in her opinion , a deplorable characteristic of mid twentieth century human culture , developed itself , before the end of the session , into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast , as indeed I was .

(Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)

It is not having his baby nestled warm and fat against your breast and it is not having somebody that really gives_a_damn whether some tramp cracks your skull .

3
[ verb ] confront bodily

Synonyms

front

Examples

"breast the storm"

Related terms

confront front

4
[ verb ] reach the summit

Examples

: "They breasted the mountain"

Related terms

reach

5
[ verb ] meet at breast level

Examples

: "The runner breasted the tape"

Related terms

converge

6
[ noun ] (food) meat carved from the breast of a fowl

Synonyms

white_meat

Related terms

helping chicken turkey

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