shoot the breeze vs confabulate

shoot the breeze and confabulate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shoot the breeze	No	No	Yes	No
confabulate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, shoot the breeze and confabulate are synonyms defined as:

shoot the breeze and confabulate: talk socially without exchanging too much information

Other synonyms of shoot the breeze include chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, visit.

shoot the breeze (verb)	confabulate (verb)
talk socially without exchanging too much information	talk socially without exchanging too much information
	have a conference in order to talk something over
	unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory