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to breast

1 8.0

To move forward and push through something with the chest

verb
/brɛst/

: abrirse paso

With determination, she breasted the crowd to reach the front of the stage.
breast the wave
breast a river

Examples

After escorting the merchant ships to Cadiz, the Spanish commander, Admiral Cordova, will continue to breast to join forces with the French.
he trod the water, whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted the surge most swoln that met him;

Prospero's Books (1991)
Our huge bow-ramps breasted an easy tide coming from the mouth of the bay.

Fiction book (1991)
The Soviet tanker, Groznyy, breasts the heavy seas.

Fiction book (2000)
Both Bulgars and Serbs, primitive rugged fighters, through military science to the wind and plunged into battle face to face and breast to breast.
He took a deep breath and breasted the wave, diving under to swim to safety.
The athlete breasted the finish line, securing his victory in the marathon.

Synonyms

to front

vsto breast

16 4.4

To face something difficult or dangerous directly

push forward physically using the chest to break through an obstacle with power

Antonyms

to retreat

235 4.0

To move back from a place or plan to avoid danger

Idioms

to make a clean breast of

1 7.5

To tell the whole truth about something wrong you did

to beat one's breast

Literature

9.1

Show deep regret by hitting your chest and crying

Compounds

breast cancer

252 2.7

A serious disease in the breast where abnormal cells grow and form a lump

breast implant

Specialized

28 3.8

A device that doctors put inside a breast to rebuild or enlarge it

breast milk

24 1.8

Milk made by a mother to feed her baby

breast pocket

9 2.4

A pocket on the chest of a jacket or coat for small items

chicken breast

Archaic

8 8.2

A bone in the chest that sticks out, often in children with rickets

breast health

1 3.9

How healthy a person's breasts are and how free they are from disease

breast of veal

1 5.5

A cut of meat from the front chest of a young cow often stuffed and roasted

breast-high

6.0

At the level of a person's chest

breast drill

Specialized

8.1

A hand tool with a rotating metal bit and a flat plate you press against the chest to make holes

breast of lamb

4.1

A cut of lamb with the breastbone and meat around it, often roasted or used in stews

breast-deep

7.4

At a height that reaches a person's chest

chimney breast

7.9

The part of a wall that sticks into a room to hold a fireplace

cystic breast disease

Specialized

4.6

Small lumps filled with fluid form in the breast tissue

fibrocystic breast disease

Specialized

3.3

A non-cancerous breast condition with small fluid lumps and firm areas that can be painful

fibrocystic disease of the breast

Specialized

4.2

A breast condition with small fluid-filled lumps and firm tissue that is not cancer and may cause pain

pigeon breast

Specialized

9.9

A condition where the chest bone sticks out too far

How Forceful

to charge

128 3.6

to barge

Informal

42 6.0

to breast

1 8.0

to push

∞ 1.0

to edge

10 3.9

Surface Forms

breast infinitive

breasted past

breasted past participle

breasting present participle

breasts third person singular

Etymology

The verb breast comes from the noun breast ('chest'); to breast something is to meet it with your chest or push forward against it, so it means to confront or break through.