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.
He dived his arm down to the bottom of the chest, and brought up a small wooden box with a sliding lid, such as children’s toys are kept in.
“At the moment, however, we had no thought for the old chest, for our eyes were riveted upon that which crouched beside it.
131 was one of a row, all flat-chested, respectable, and most unromantic dwellings.
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