unbosoming

verb

present participle of unbosom
as in disclosing
to make known (as information previously kept secret) unbosomed his fear of dying only to his closest friends

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbosoming
  1. disclosing
  2. revealing
  3. discovering
  4. telling
  5. uncovering
  6. exposing
Verb
  • Doing so would not require disclosing every detail of Hurts' private medical history.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • For now, the researchers aren’t disclosing the exact formulation.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of disclosing
Verb
  • The extra baggage negates the weightlessness, revealing a more flawed and earthbound iteration of the band.
    — Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The seemingly perfectly healthy and always active youngster from Georgia suffered a massive seizure, with scans later revealing three brain tumors.
    — Patrick Snell, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of revealing
Verb
  • Today is excellent for discovering the next clue rather than forcing yourself to produce the final answer.
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Instead of discovering and browsing websites themselves, customers could delegate those tasks to Muse.
    — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of discovering
Verb
  • The ad also accuses his Democratic opponent, Brian Poindexter, of telling lies about him.
    — Lara Korte The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Our weak college presidents have avoided telling the truth for too long.
    — Bruce Svare, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of telling
Verb
  • The preacher was arrested in 2023 after police received a tip-off, and weeks later authorities began uncovering bodies in shallow graves in the Shakahola Forest near the coast in southeastern Kenya.
    — Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • That is followed by one focused on exploring conventional notions of beauty by uncovering the unexpected draw of unpleasant scents with Naïla Hamayed, Givaudan’s fragrance evaluator.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of uncovering
Verb
  • According to Queen, the last time the water dropped this low, exposing part of Old Highway 6, was in the 1980s.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The disruption hit systems used for payments, money transfers, deliveries, property searches, and remote court hearings, exposing how a failure in one cloud region can ripple across much of the digital economy.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of exposing
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“Unbosoming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbosoming. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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