Both Uses of
confide
in
Wuthering Heights
- She did bring herself, finally, to confess, and to confide in me: there was not a soul else that she might fashion into an adviser.†
p. 47.9 *confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- She seemed willing to do her best; though she thrust the hearth-brush into the grates in mistake for the poker, and malappropriated several other articles of her craft: but I retired, confiding in her energy for a resting-place against my return.†
p. 222.6confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
Definitions:
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(1)
(confide) to place trust (in someone) by talking about private things or telling secrets
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, confide can mean to give trust to someone while giving them something important--such as a responsibility or a valuable item. For example, "I confided the job to her care."