Sample Sentences for
confide
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    It had been here, in this very room, that Dumbledore had told him that he was to confide the contents of their lessons to nobody but Ron and Hermione.  (source)
    confide = tell confidentially
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    It was too late to confide in Nick, to take him with me wherever I was going.  (source)
    confide = place trust (in someone) and talk about private things
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    A bosom friend—an intimate friend, you know—a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.  (source)
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    "I could have sneaked a look at the list prior to the ceremony," Father confided.  (source)
    confided = placed trust by telling a secret
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    'I see,' he said, 'you trust your children, and confide in them.' 'Of course,' said Mother. 'Then I may tell them our little arrangement,' he said. 'Your Mother, my dears, has consented to give up writing for a little while and to become a Matron of my Hospital.'  (source)
    confide = place trust (in someone) and talk about private things
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    "Nasal drip," Denton Deere whispered, confiding the latest diagnosis to his partner.  (source)
    confiding = trusting
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    The next morning, she confides in her daughter, Karla Yamileth Chavez.†  (source)
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    He grinned confidingly and sank down on my cot, leaning on his elbow in a relaxed, at-home way.†  (source)
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    Now the car was silent, as unconfiding as the day he had picked it up.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconfiding means not and reverses the meaning of confiding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Alone, alone ..."So am I," he said, on a gush of confidingness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He's a great little confider.†  (source)
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    He had glanced through it, no more than that, and now he settled down to an earnest reading of the day-by-day entries, which began on her thirteenth birthday and ended some two months short of her seventeenth; the unsensational confidings of an intelligent child who adored animals, who liked to read, cook, sew, dance, ride horseback-a popular, pretty, virginal girl who thought it "fun to flirt" but was nevertheless "only really and truly in love with Bobby."†  (source)
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    "You never know when she might snap," he'd confided in Rudy, half twitching, half speaking.  (source)
    confided = placed trust by sharing a private concern
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