breast

1. 1.

   meet at breast level

   “The runner breasted the tape”

   Broaderconverge
2. 2.

   reach the summit (of a mountain)

   “They breasted the mountain”

   “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”

   Synonymssummit

   Broaderreach
3. 3.

   confront bodily

   “breast the storm”

   Synonymsfront

   Broaderconfront

Other forms of breast

plural

breasts·

past tense

breasted·

present participle

breasting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about breast

What does breast mean?

breast means "the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breast?

breast has 1 syllable: breast. In IPA it is /ˈbɹɛst/.

What is another word for breast?

Close synonyms include chest, bosom, knocker, boob, tit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breast a common word?

breast is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with breast?

2 words rhyme with breast. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.