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chested

UK/ˈtʃɛst.ɪd/US/ˈt͡ʃɛstɪd/

chested is the simple past and past participle of chest.

Meaning of chest

Verb

chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)

  1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
    • Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net.2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC
  2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To place in a coffin.
  4. (Africa, transitive) To handle, deal with.
    • Children being loud and annoying in public is a small price to pay for living and participating in society. Everyone goes through this cycle and you too were once that child. We can’t just lock them indoors. Chest it, sorry.2025 August 2, @ulxma, X

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Adjective

chested

  1. (in-compounds, usually) Having a chest (with a specified quality).
    • Jenny was the most flat-chested of her friends.
    • Spare, like Henry the Fifth, almost to the manly defect of leanness, his proportions were slight to those which gave such portly majesty to the vast-chested Edward, but they evinced the promise of almost equal strength […]1843, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last of the Barons, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, pages 126–7

Origin of chested

From chest + -ed.

Words formed from chested

Phrases with chested

Words that rhyme with chested

Questions about chested

What does chested mean?
Chested means having a chest (with a specified quality).
What is chested the simple past and past participle of?
Chested is the simple past and past participle of chest.
What part of speech is chested?
Chested is an adjective.
How do you pronounce chested?
Chested is pronounced /ˈtʃɛst.ɪd/ (UK).

Words near chested in the dictionary

  1. chestal
  2. Chestang
  3. Chestangs
  4. chestbag
  5. chestbags
  6. chested
  7. chested down
  8. chested one's cards
  9. chested up
  10. chestedness
  11. chesten

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