confide
verb (used without object)
to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed byin ).
had been confiding
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past perfect progressiveof confide.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Joseph had been confiding his thoughts about plural marriage to his most trusted confederates throughout the 1830s.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2014
"What then do you think it is, Ike?" said the doctor, to whom Ike had been confiding this opinion.
From The Prospector by Ralph Connor
I saw you with Mr. Beauclerk in the garden then, and he told me afterward you had been confiding in him about your cousin.
From April's Lady A Novel by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
I should say," said Francis with perfect calm, "that our honorable friend Mr. Logan had been confiding in you.
From I've Married Marjorie by Margaret Widdemer
To Mr. Wheeler, over a friendly lunch, Archie had been confiding some of his ambitions to qualify as the hero of one of the Get-on-or-get-out-young-man-step-lively-books.
From Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
