Synonyms for BREAST
brɛstbreast

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1. breastnoun

   To push against with the breast; to meet full on, to oppose, to face.

   Tanya's breasts grew alarmingly during pregnancy.

   Synonyms:
   chest

2. breastnoun

   A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast.

   Would you like breast or wing?

   Synonyms:
   white meat

   Antonyms:
   dark meat, thigh, wing

3. breastnoun

   Synonyms:
   heart, soul

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. breast, chestnoun

   the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen

   "he beat his breast in anger"

   Synonyms:
   titty, white meat, chest, dresser, boob, knocker, pectus, tit, thorax, bosom, chest of drawers, bureau, breast

2. breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, tittynoun

   either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

   Synonyms:
   titmouse, embrace, chest, disparager, boob, dummy, mammilla, nipple, pap, breast, white meat, booby, knocker, pinhead, doorknocker, dumbbell, mamilla, tit, heart, bosom, titty, detractor, dope, depreciator, teat, rapper

3. breast, white meatnoun

   meat carved from the breast of a fowl

   Synonyms:
   titty, white meat, chest, boob, knocker, tit, bosom, breast

4. breastverb

   the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest

   Synonyms:
   chest, white meat, titty, boob, tit, bosom, knocker

5. breastverb

   meet at breast level

   "The runner breasted the tape"

   Synonyms:
   summit, front

6. summit, breastverb

   reach the summit (of a mountain)

   "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit"

   Synonyms:
   summit, breast, front

7. front, breastverb

   confront bodily

   "breast the storm"

   Synonyms:
   face, summit, look, breast, front

Matched Categories

1. • Confront
   • Helping
   • Mamma
   • Meet

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. breastnoun

   Synonyms:
   bosom

2. breastnoun

   Synonyms:
   heart, conscience, seat of the affections

3. breastnoun

   Synonyms:
   mamma, teat, dug, udder

4. breastverb

   Synonyms:
   face, stem, withstand, oppose, resist, bare the breast against

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. breastnoun

   Synonyms:
   chest, bosom, thorax, teat, pap, dug, mamma

   Associated words:
   amasty, pectoral, plastron, bib, gorget, mammillary, angina pectoris, areola, pectoriloquy, diaphragm, sternal

2. breastverb

   Synonyms:
   stem, struggle with, withstand, resist

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "breast":

   chest, mammary, boneless, maternal, mama, brisket, al-sadr, bosom, sadr, ironing, sucking, breastmilk

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1. Gerard Linden:

   There are changes in sex hormone levels related to the menopause that may affect the response of breast tissues to a stimulus such as exposure to bacteria.

2. Verna Vanderpuye:

   For young women, there's the fact that when they have a mastectomy, they only have one breast, and some, they lose their spouses and their position in the society.

3. Lisa Richardson:

   The thing that seems to drive breast cancer is total exposure to estrogen over a lifetime.

4. Erica Mayer:

   It's known that pregnancy at a younger age may confer some long-term protective benefits against breast cancer, however it's also been recognized that in the immediate years following a pregnancy, there seems to be an increased risk of breast cancer that slowly resolves with time, the findings in this paper support and confirm the prior observations.

5. Krista Gray:

   Breast milk digests very quickly and a baby, especially a newborn, eats all the time. That’s the way it was designed.