confide
verb (used without object)
to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed byin ).
confided
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past participleof confide.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof confide.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
confideverb (used without object)to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed byin ).
Example Sentences
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While wrestling with his response to the Roebucks, Walters confided in Collins, his half brother.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"But privately it still scares me," she confided, adding she prioritises the "human" aspect of her work.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
"I know who it was," he confided to the man he did not know was recording him.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
His partner confided that he, too, had about $12,000 of credit-card debt and had recently started working with Consolidated Credit, a nonprofit that provides debt-management programs to help people pay down their balances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Only the day before, he confided to a friend that he “will have the fortune of receiving the greatest honor that can be given to a solider, that of dying for his country.”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
