Debreast

Quick meaning: Debreast is a verb meaning (transitive) To remove the breasts from.

Meaning

(transitive) To remove the breasts from.

Example Sentences

The order was given to debreast that young sweeper. The subordinates slashed the innocent sweeper's breasts.

Thus, in images of St Agatha's debreasting, artists often represent only the removal of a single breast, to the martyr's right, signalling a typological connection with Christ's wound[…]

Although it is often said elsewhere that this debreasting was done so that in maturity Amazons might be able to draw bowstrings unimpeded across their chests, the passage I have quoted offers a different explanation[…]

She yelped, ripped me off her chest and flung me so hard against the wall my eyes went out of focus. “Charlie,” she yelled, sitting up and frantically looking down the front of her nightie, acting as though I'd debreasted her or something.

Word Forms

• debreasts
• debreasting
• debreasted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include breast, deblouse, unbreech, unbreast, debone, debrain.

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