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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
  • "I could have sneaked a look at the list prior to the ceremony," Father confided.  (source)
    confided = placed trust by telling a secret
  • 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
  • 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
  • "Nasal drip," Denton Deere whispered, confiding the latest diagnosis to his partner.  (source)
    confiding = trusting
  • The next morning, she confides in her daughter, Karla Yamileth Chavez.†  (source)
    confides = places trust (in someone) by talking about private things
  • "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
  • 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 things
    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.
  • 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 things
    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.
  • He's a great little confider.†  (source)
    confider = someone who places trust (in someone) by talking about private things
  • 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 things
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She confideth" in older English, today we say "She confides."
  • 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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