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breasted

/ˈbɹɛstɪd/

breasted adjective: having a breast, or breasts. Also the simple past and past participle of breast.

Adjective

breasted (not comparable)

  1. Having a breast, or breasts.
    • He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 11
  2. (in-compounds) Having a specified kind of breast or covering.
    • The original wild varieties of Game fowl are three: the Black-breasted Red, with fawn-breasted partridge hens; the Brown-breasted Reds, with dark legs and dark-brown hens, and the Red-breasted Ginger Reds, with yellow legs, and the hens of a light partridge color.1884, Charles Louis Flint, The American Farmer, page 480

Also used as

breasted is also the simple past and past participle of breast.

Origin of breasted

From breast + -ed.

Words formed from breasted

Phrases with breasted

Questions about breasted

What does breasted mean?
Breasted means having a breast, or breasts.
What part of speech is breasted?
Breasted is an adjective.
How do you pronounce breasted?
Breasted is pronounced /ˈbɹɛstɪd/.

Words near breasted in the dictionary

  1. breastbands
  2. breastbeam
  3. breastbeams
  4. breastbone
  5. breastbones
  6. breasted
  7. breasted boobily
  8. breasted down
  9. breasted one's cards
  10. breasted the tape
  11. breasted up

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