confide
verb (used without object)
to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed byin ).
have been confiding
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present perfect progressiveof confide.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The fact that some have been confiding in recent days to associates is a sign of the level of their distress.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2019
Of late these callers have been confiding to the President their difficulties in maintaining his wage scale while commodity prices were falling.
From Time Magazine Archive
All he gathered from this announcement was that Valentine seemed in some way to have been confiding in this girl of the streets.
From Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens
Her hands released, how promptly might she not have been confiding her innumerable perplexities of sentiment and emotion to paper, undermining self-governance; self-respect, perhaps!
From Beauchamp's Career — Complete by George Meredith
I have been confiding all my cares to it.
From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
