Definitions for breasting

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breasting breast·ing

Spelling: [bres-ting]

IPA: /ˈbrɛs tɪŋ/

Breasting is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 932 anagrams from letters in breasting (abeginrst).

Definitions for breasting

noun

1. a piece of leather or other material for covering the heel breast of a shoe.
2. Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
3. Zoology. the corresponding part in quadrupeds.
4. either of the pair of mammae occurring on the chest in humans and having a discrete areola around the nipple, especially the mammae of the female after puberty, which are enlarged and softened by hormonally influenced mammary-gland development and fat deposition and which secrete milk after the birth of a child: the breasts of males normally remain rudimentary.
5. the part of a garment that covers the chest.
6. the bosom conceived of as the center of emotion:
7. a projection from a wall, as part of a chimney.
8. any surface or part resembling or likened to the human breast.
9. Mining. the face or heading at which the work is going on.
10. Metallurgy. the front of an open-hearth furnace. the clay surrounding the taphole of a cupola.
11. Nautical. breast line. a rounded bow.

Idioms

1. beat one's breast, to display one's grief, remorse, etc., in a loud and demonstrative manner.
2. make a clean breast of, to confess everything (of which one is guilty):

Verb phrases

1. breast in, Nautical. to bind (an object, as a boatswain's chair) securely under a projection, as the flare of a bow.
2. breast off, Nautical. to thrust (a vessel) sideways from a wharf. to keep (a vessel) away from a wharf by means of timbers.

verb (used with object)

1. to meet or oppose boldly; confront:
2. to contend with or advance against:
3. to climb or climb over (a mountain, obstacle, etc.).
4. to overcome, succeed against.
5. to come alongside or abreast of.

Origin of breasting

breast + -ing¹

Examples for breasting

Iftikhar was breasting them, on a steed the pride of El Halebah's stables.

Into the grass, belly-deep, the big horses plunged, breasting it like the sea.

It shot forward, breasting the current, and was soon well away from the cliff.

I was breasting the opposite hill when several other Zulus joined the first.

Far at its end stood the train, breasting the darkness without.

They were like men forced to travel, and breasting a strong head wind.

And they plunged into Cheapside again, he breasting the stream, making a passage for her.

She was his true mate for breasting a world honoured in uplifting her.

It was indeed Simpson, with unsteady steps, breasting the hill.

Her horse fought its way forward, breasting the flood valiantly.