Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb breast

3 senses of breast

Sense 1
breast -- (meet at breast level; "The runner breasted the tape")
       => converge, meet -- (be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point")

Sense 2
summit, breast -- (reach the summit (of a mountain); "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit")
       => reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain -- (reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts")

Sense 3
front, breast -- (confront bodily; "breast the storm")
       => confront, face -- (oppose, as in hostility or a competition; "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other")

Antonyms of adj breasted

1 sense of breasted

Sense 1
breasted (vs. breastless) -- (having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds; "small-breasted"; "red-breasted sandpiper")

breastless (vs. breasted) -- (without a breast)

Similarity of adj breasted

1 sense of breasted

Sense 1
breasted (vs. breastless) -- (having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds; "small-breasted"; "red-breasted sandpiper")
       => bosomed -- (having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds; "full-bosomed women"; "the green-bosomed earth")

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