Definitions for breasts

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breasts breast

Spelling: [brest]

IPA: /brɛst/

Breasts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in breasts (abersst).

Definitions for breasts

noun

1. 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.
2. Zoology. the corresponding part in quadrupeds.
3. 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.
4. the part of a garment that covers the chest.
5. the bosom conceived of as the center of emotion:
6. a projection from a wall, as part of a chimney.
7. any surface or part resembling or likened to the human breast.
8. Mining. the face or heading at which the work is going on.
9. Metallurgy. the front of an open-hearth furnace. the clay surrounding the taphole of a cupola.
10. 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 breasts

before 1000; Middle English brest, Old English brēost; cognate with Old Norse brjōst; akin to German Brust, Gothic brusts, Dutch borst

Examples for breasts

Methought anon you saw me go down with three pikes in my breast.

He tore a piece of meat off the breast and stroked her coat while she ate.

It carries a conditioner that contains triclosan, which has been linked to promoting the growth of breast cancer cells.

The coverlet dropped from her breast; her hand was suspended with stiff fingers.

My girlfriend, Barbara, came to visit me and exposed her breast through the window.

She hid her face on his breast against his tickly coat, and cried.

Then with astonishing clearness he saw her hand resting against her breast.

Business Insider calculated that only about eight percent of the money spent on pink merchandise went to breast cancer charities.

Her cries and pleadings were being smothered down on his breast.

Hooters is cleverly asking me to “Give a Hoot” about breast cancer.