chest
/t͡ʃɛst/ noun A2- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid. · The clothes are kept in a chest.
- The place in which public money is kept; a treasury. · You can take the money from the chest.
- A chest of drawers.
- The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals. · Holonyms: torso, trunk < body· She had a sudden pain in her chest.
- The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso. · Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk· He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.
- A female human's breasts. · He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.
- A hit or blow made with one's chest. · She scored with a chest into the goal.
Plural chests
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know.
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.
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