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

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. William Congreve:

   Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.

2. William Congreve:

   Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

3. Homer:

   Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

4. Scot Glasberg:

   It's encouraging to see a significant rise in breast reconstruction rates because studies show that reconstruction can greatly improve a patient’s quality of life and self-image, but not all breast cancer patients undergo breast reconstruction— in some cases because they are not informed of all of their reconstructive options.

5. Otis Brawley:

   You get your breast surgeons and your breast radiation oncologist and your breast medical oncologist, and they treat the breast cancer, and then you get the head-neck oncologists, including the radiation oncologist and the head-neck medical oncologist, and they treat the head and neck cancer, now, those two groups of people are going to have to talk to each other, and they’re going to have to work to coordinate with each other. But you don’t treat the patient differently other than that coordination.