unbreast
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[edit]unbreast (third-person singular simple present unbreasts, present participle unbreasting, simple past and past participle unbreasted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To disclose or lay open; to unbosom.
- 1633, Phineas Fletcher, Piscatorie Eclogues:
- Could'st thou unmask their pomp, unbreast their heart
- 1889, Richard Yates Sturges, The Angel of Love: And Other Poems, page 82:
- Alas! the wings of Hope, that soar elate, / On earth fall quivering, soon to faint, and cease, / Leaving the unbreasted clouds to darken and increase.