breast up
C1 formal inseparable intransitive
In simple words
to push your way up through something hard
Literal meaning: The image is literal: moving upward breast-first against resistance.
Meanings
1 C1 formal
to move upward while pressing through resistance with the front of the body
"They breasted up the steep snowy path in silence."
Grammar: inseparable
Usage notes
Rare and literary. Often used for movement through water, waves, snow, or steep ground.
Commonly used with
hill slope waves current bank snow
Forms
Base
breast up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
breasts up
he/she/it
Past simple
breasted up
yesterday
Past participle
breasted up
have + pp
-ing form
breasting up
continuous
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