breast
/bɹˈɛst/ · 1 syllable
Meaning
noun
- the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
“he beat his breast in anger” - either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- meat carved from the breast of a fowl
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
verb
- meet at breast level
“The runner breasted the tape” - reach the summit (of a mountain)
“They breasted the mountain” - confront bodily
“breast the storm”
Synonyms for breast
Words that rhyme with breast
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