confide
Americanverb (used without object)
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to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed byin ).
She confides in no one but her husband.
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to have full trust; have faith.
They confided in their own ability.
verb
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to disclose (secret or personal matters) in confidence (to); reveal in private (to)
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to have complete trust
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(tr) to entrust into another's keeping
Other Word Forms
- confider noun
- preconfide verb
- unconfided adjective
- well-confided adjective
Etymology
Origin of confide
First recorded in 1625–35; from Latin confīdere, from con- con- + fīdere “to trust” (akin to fidēs “faith, trust”; fidelity )
Example Sentences
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Another farmworker, who declined to give her name, confided that she and her sons had come here on tourist visas and weren’t legally allowed to work.
From Los Angeles Times
And you confide more because you know your fellow travelers—the friend who had to struggle with professional disappointments she now understands are final, or with personal ones that cannot be changed.
They were less likely to strike up conversations with classmates or confide in dormmates.
“During their relationship, Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider “backdoor” to Google servers with a team of Google engineers in order to spy on Google employees.
From Los Angeles Times
They were comfortable confiding in one another to the point of calling the war “already a lost cause for Germany,” as Kiep put it.
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