breast
/bɹɛst/ verb C2- To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
- To reach the top of (a hill or other prominence). · He breasted the hill and saw the town before him.
- To debreast.
He/she/it breasts · Past breasted · Past participle breasted · -ing form breasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- breast
- He/she/it
- breasts
- Past
- breasted
- Past participle
- breasted
- -ing form
- breasting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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His Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast in sorrow, whereupon the young man said, “I wish to say something to my Mother in her ear.” She came close to him, and he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off.
“But I shall have to cut a hole in your breast, so I can put your heart in the right place.
So Oz brought a pair of tinsmith’s shears and cut a small, square hole in the left side of the Tin Woodman’s breast.
He put the heart in the Woodman’s breast and then replaced the square of tin, soldering it neatly together where it had been cut.
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