unbosom
/ʌnˈbʊz(ə)m
/verb [with object] archaic
Disclose (one’s thoughts or secrets): she unbosomed herself to a trusty female friend...
- It was he himself who overheard the secret utterances of Crazy Horse - that he had sat behind him, enveloped in his blanket when the chief was unbosoming himself, supposedly in secret.
- ‘Reet, that does it’, said the GA, and stumped round to unbosom himself of the accumulated chagrin of the last month.
- I pray you, therefore, to unbosom yourselves of all your doubts.
Synonyms
open one's heart, unburden oneself, confess, tell all, tell one's all;
confide in
informal come clean, spill all