Antonyms for bosom
ˈbʊz əm, ˈbu zəmbo·som

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1. bosomnoun

   the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept

   "his bosom was bursting with the secret"

   Synonyms:
   boob, heart, tit, titty, knocker, breast, embrace

2. bosomnoun

   a person's breast or chest

   Synonyms:
   boob, heart, tit, titty, knocker, breast, embrace

3. bosomnoun

   cloth that covers the chest or breasts

   Synonyms:
   boob, heart, tit, titty, knocker, breast, embrace

4. embrace, bosomnoun

   a close affectionate and protective acceptance

   "his willing embrace of new ideas"; "in the bosom of the family"

   Synonyms:
   heart, embrace, boob, knocker, embracement, tit, embracing, titty, breast

5. heart, bosomnoun

   the locus of feelings and intuitions

   "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom"

   Synonyms:
   affection, embrace, affectionateness, substance, tit, philia, meat, centre, center, tenderness, core, titty, marrow, sum, nerve, ticker, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, boob, spirit, gist, warmness, inwardness, pith, heart, pump, essence, mettle, warmheartedness, knocker, heart and soul, fondness, breast, spunk, eye, middle

6. breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, tittyverb

   either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

   Synonyms:
   titmouse, embrace, chest, disparager, boob, dummy, mammilla, nipple, pap, breast, white meat, booby, knocker, pinhead, doorknocker, dumbbell, mamilla, tit, heart, titty, detractor, dope, depreciator, teat, rapper

7. bosomverb

   hide in one's bosom

   "She bosomed his letters"

   Synonyms:
   squeeze, hug, embrace

8. embrace, hug, bosom, squeezeverb

   squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness

   "Hug me, please"; "They embraced"; "He hugged her close to him"

   Synonyms:
   hug, twitch, espouse, rack, pressure, encompass, thrust, press, gouge, sweep up, embrace, adopt, force, shove, twinge, compress, tweet, contract, compact, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, pinch, wring, hale, mash, coerce, comprehend, cover, wedge, squelch, constrict, crush

How to use bosom in a sentence?

1. Book of Proverbs:

   Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

2. M.K. Ataturk:

   Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

3. George Sand:

   It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

4. Joseph Addison:

   If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

5. David Thomas:

   The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.

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