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WordBand 6–7Core (NGSL)
chest
/t͡ʃɛst/
noun1 of 2
the front of your body between your neck and your waist
- “Inside the chest, there are the heart and the lungs.”Tatoeba
- “I have something I need to get off my chest.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To place in a coffin.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)