chest
/t͡ʃɛst/ verb C2- To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
- To deposit in a chest.
- To handle, deal with.
He/she/it chests · Past chested · Past participle chested · -ing form chesting
Verb forms
- Base form
- chest
- He/she/it
- chests
- Past
- chested
- Past participle
- chested
- -ing form
- chesting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.
“Good!” said the gendarme, placing his knee on his chest; “this is the way you keep your word as a sailor!
In age he was rather younger than Douglas—forty-five at the most—a tall, straight, broad-chested fellow with a clean-shaved, prize-fighter face, thick, strong, black eyebrows, and a pair of masterful black eyes which might, even without the aid of his very capable hands, clear a way for him through a hostile crowd.
Lying across his chest was a curious weapon, a shotgun with the barrel sawed off a foot in front of the triggers.
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