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
I have talked enough, and all Rome will set upon you to find out what secrets of State I have been confiding.
From Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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 — Volume 1 by George Meredith
She might almost have been confiding her fancies to a husband whose sympathy had been tested by years of fond companionship.
From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
