breast vs confront

breast is a noun but confront is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
breast	Yes	No	Yes	No
confront	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, confront is a hypernym of breast; that is, confront is a word with a broader meaning than breast:

Other hypernyms of breast include face.

breast (noun)	confront (noun)
the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
meat carved from the breast of a fowl

breast (verb)	confront (verb)
confront bodily	deal with (something unpleasant) head on
reach the summit (of a mountain)	present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize
meet at breast level	oppose, as in hostility or a competition
	be face to face with