Synonyms for breast
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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

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, 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

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, front

7. front, breastverb

   confront bodily

   "breast the storm"

   Synonyms:
   face, summit, look, 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. Chrissie Hynde:

   I make a distinction between a memoir written about your breast implants and a memoir written hopefully as a piece of literature to survive forever.

2. Niccolo Machiavelli:

   Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

3. Daniel Grossman:

   Those who will be possibly impacted by this are often the sole providers of health care for these patients. They provide Pap smears and breast cancer screening and many other preventative services, and it is not so easy to find other providers to take up the slack if these providers don't receive the funding.

4. Armando Giuliano:

   Older women tend to have( slow-growing) breast cancers and more medical problems than younger women and very often they don’t die of breast cancer, frequently, they don’t get chemotherapy because they would n’t tolerate it, and they are going to get hormone treatment no matter what you find in the biopsy.

5. Metastasio:

   If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.