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Tell secrets to (with ''in'')
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confide
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to trust or have faith," from Latin confidere "to trust in, rely firmly upon, believe" (see confidence ). Meaning "to share a secret with" is from 1735; phrase confide in (someone) is from 1888. Related: Confided ; confiding .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive now rare English) To trust, have faith ('''in'''). 2 (context transitive dated English) To entrust (something) '''to''' the responsibility of someone. 3 (context intransitive English) To take (someone) into one's confidence, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Confide was an American metalcore band from Anaheim, California , formed in 2004. They have released two EPs and three full-length albums. Although all the members of the group are openly Christian, they have not been marketed in the Christian market since ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confide \Con*fide"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Confided ; p. pr. & vb. n. Confiding .] [L. confidere; con- + fidere to trust. See Faith , and cf. Affiance .] To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides ...
Usage examples of confide.
When Adams confided that he hoped to keep Hamilton at a safe distance, she provided a withering farsighted assessment.
When Madame Angelin went to Paris she often called on Constance, to whom, before long, she confided all her worries.
That little quiver came back while she listened to all that Madame Angelin confided to her.
But to her knowledge, Arcadia had not confided in anyone else with the possible exception of Harry Stagg.
She had told him more of her secrets than she had told anyone else, including Arcadia, but she dared not confide her deepest, bleakest fear, the one she had discovered that night when she wandered the halls of Candle Lake Manor and blundered into a psychic spiderweb.
Little Arcady,--telling her his joys, his griefs, his interests, which were but the joys and griefs and interests of his people, he wrought a spell upon her so that she in turn became confiding.
Jai hurt so much, surrounded by Aristos, cut off from his former life, unable to confide in anyone.
Monsieur Malicorne, it is quite impossible for me to give you any explanation: you must therefore confide in me as in a friend who got you out of a great difficulty yesterday, and who now begs you to draw him out of one to-day.
Emma shrugged, and, since she confided most things in Blackie these days, she told him about her conversation with Edwina, her attempts to reason with her daughter.
Miss Bombazine confided, her bulging, black, silken-held breast thrusting from the window as she clung on to the handle.
Prince Bondo, the messenger confided, had long labored under an affliction that baffled the best minds in the medical and magical worlds.
He was not an easy man in whom to confide, but Stanley Wood was so full of pent emotion that he would have welcomed the insensate ears of a stone Buddah had there been no other ear to listen.
He was the only one during all the plotting for the Castellano hit--all the what if this, what if that--that I confided in, was able to walk with, talk with, relax with.
At breakfast Art had confided his worry that Seth Parsigian and Oliver Guest were heading for his home in Catoctin Mountain Park, while he was forced to go to Washington.
Saturday left, and although Claribel would have liked to confide in her mother she could see the good sense of saying nothing.