debreast

present singular third person debreasts · participle present debreasting · participle past debreasted · past debreasted

1. transitiveTo remove the breasts from.

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

   1978, Brajkishore Prasad, India Regained: A Dynastic Rule and the '77 Democratic Revolution, page 224

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   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[…]

   1991, Bruce Lincoln, Death, War, and Sacrifice, page 199

   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[…]

   2002, Rita Copeland, David Lawton, Wendy Scase, New medieval literatures, volume 5, page 122

   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.

   2005, Phillip Gaustad, Carlocito, page 8