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breast
noun
verb
The part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
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bɹɛst
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noun
The part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
noun
The front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
“He beat his breast in anger”
noun
Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
noun
Meat carved from the breast of a fowl
verb
Confront bodily
“Breast the storm”
verb
Reach the summit (of a mountain)
“They breasted the mountain”
verb
Meet at breast level
“The runner breasted the tape”
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He beat his breast in anger
Breast the storm
They breasted the mountain
Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit
The runner breasted the tape
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