breast

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breast/brest/

▶noun

• 1 either of the two soft protruding organs on the upper front of a woman's body which secrete milk after childbirth.

• 2 a person's or animal's chest region.

  ■ a joint of meat or poultry cut from an animal's breast.

▶verb face and move forwards against or through.

■ reach the top of (a hill).

– derivatives
-breasted adjective.

– origin OE brēost, of Gmc origin.