verb
- to reveal or disclose (something secret or private); to unburden oneself by telling
- to remove from the bosom or breast; to take out from one's heart or affections
Usage: literary; archaic
Usage: archaic; poetic
Examples
- She finally decided to disbosom her deepest fears to her closest friend.
- He could not disbosom the secret he had kept for so many years.
- The old letter allowed him to disbosom long-hidden truths about his family.
- In the confessional, the penitent began to disbosom his conscience.
- She disbosom'd her sorrows to the sympathetic listener.