confront vs breast

confront is not a noun while breast is a noun.

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

As verbs, breast is a hyponym of confront; that is, breast is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than confront:

Other hyponyms of confront include front, take the bull by the horns, match, oppose, pit, play off.

confront (noun)	breast (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

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