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
He had been confiding in her—George had known the story he told her—no one else.
From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray
"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
It might vex Mademoiselle Gonfalon—to learn that she had been overheard—or—she might doubt your having heard, and think I had been confiding to you a presumptuous and unfounded belief of her partiality for myself.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various
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
