make a clean breast of

Questions about make a clean breast of

What is another word for make a clean breast of?

It depends which make a clean breast of you mean. In the sense “admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error”, the synonyms are own up, fess up. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of make a clean breast of?

WordNet records no antonym for make a clean breast of. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for make a clean breast of come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of make a clean breast of

• Full entry for make a clean breast ofAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for make a clean breast ofWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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