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She confided in me. I won't repeat what was said.confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
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She confided in her parents.confided = placed trust by talking about private things
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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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"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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"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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Soon, Mama was confiding in Carmen, telling her all that had happened with Papa and Tio Luis. (source)confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
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Billie, who arrived in Alaska two days ago, confided to me that the prospect of visiting the bus has been difficult for him to come to terms with. (source)confided = admitted
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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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"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)confides = places trust (in someone) by talking about private things
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"Richard and I are such great pals," she said to me confidingly, for the first time but not for the last. (source)confidingly = in the manner of someone sharing private things
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Now the car was silent, as unconfiding as the day he had picked it up.† (source)unconfiding = not placing trust (in someone) by talking about private thingsstandard 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)confidingness = the quality of placing trust (in someone) by talking about private thingsstandard 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)confider = someone who places trust (in someone) by talking about private things
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Paradiso: Canto XXII Oppressed with stupor, I unto my guide Turned like a little child who always runs For refuge there where he confideth most; And she, even as a mother who straightway Gives comfort to her pale and breathless boy With voice whose wont it is to reassure him, Said to me: "Knowest thou not thou art in heaven, And knowest thou not that heaven is holy all And what is done here cometh from good zeal?† (source)confideth = places trust (in someone) by talking about private thingsstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She confideth" in older English, today we say "She confides."
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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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