chested

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈtʃɛst.ɪd/ (UK)
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/ˈtʃɛst.ɪd/ (UK) · /ˈt͡ʃɛstɪd/ (US) · /ˈt͡ʃɛstəd/ (US) · /ˈtʃestəd/

Definition of chested

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of chest
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verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of chest

adj

  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 […]”
    “Beholding Ajax then, the aged king / Asked yet again: "Who is that other chief / Of the Achaians, tall, and large of limb,— / Taller and broader-chested than the rest?"”
    “Loud greetings followed, and another burst of laughter, heavy, deep-chested and glad.”
    “From behind him there emerged a broad-chested guard with a long black truncheon in his hand.”

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Etymology

From chest + -ed.

Anagrams of chested

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