Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To confide (one's thoughts or feelings).
- intransitive verb To relieve (oneself) of troublesome thoughts or feelings.
- intransitive verb To reveal one's thoughts or feelings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reveal in confidence; disclose, as one's secret opinions or feelings: often used with a reflexive pronoun.
- To make a revelation in confidence; disclose one's innermost feelings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
tell someone about one's troubles, and thus obtainrelief . - verb archaic To
confess amisdeed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb relieve oneself of troubling information
Etymologies
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Examples
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And did the fascist pigs seed the rain clouds over the festival site, causing them to unbosom upon the heads of the beautiful people?
Woodstock Nation 2009
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And did the fascist pigs seed the rain clouds over the festival site, causing them to unbosom upon the heads of the beautiful people?
Woodstock Nation 2009
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I have done ill to unbosom myself so far to this poisonous quacksalver.
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She languished to throw herself into the arms of her father, to unbosom to him all her errors and distresses, and owe their extrication to his wisdom and kindness.
Camilla 2008
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'Hesitate not, my dear girl,' cried he kindly, 'to unbosom your griefs or your apprehensions, where they will be received with all the tenderness due to such a confidence, and held sacred from every human inspection; unless you permit me yourself to entrust your best and wisest friend.'
Camilla 2008
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So saying, he passed to the palace of Zosimus the Patriarch, to whom he could unbosom himself with more safety, because he had long considered
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Thus did Pacquette unbosom herself to honest Candide in his closet, in the presence of Martin, who took occasion to say to him,
Candide 2007
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Miss Osborne, I say, thought that when he had given himself a little air, he would unbosom himself entirely, and prepared eagerly to listen.
Vanity Fair 2006
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George having related his exploits as champion and martyr, of course Harry had to unbosom himself to his brother, and lay before his elder an account of his private affairs.
The Virginians 2006
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In town bachelors visit the baths and the restaurants on purpose to talk, and sometimes tell the most interesting things to bath attendants and waiters; in the country, as a rule, they unbosom themselves to their guests.
The Wife 2004
stuartmathergibson commented on the word unbosom
unbosom
To confide (one's thoughts or feelings).
December 3, 2021