unbosom
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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Rassendyll's job is to rescue Rudolf and hand over the throne, so that he can unbosom himself to Flavia.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a great comfort to unbosom one's self to a wife, after all!” quoth Riccabocca.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
As she cast about in her mind for some way out of her trouble, it seemed to her that the only person to whom she could unbosom herself was Miss Gibb.
From A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh
He looked upon himself as very upright, and, yielding to an irresistible impulse to unbosom himself, ingenuously told his friends about certain indelicate acts of which he had been guilty.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Gustave Flaubert
The Empress still occupied her place by the bed-side, which she had never quitted but once, in order to allow her dying husband to unbosom himself in private to his confessor.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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