All 12 Uses of
confide
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- Some day I hope to confide that a heap of extremely dubious pumpkins as a window-display doesn't exhilarate me much.†
Chpt 4confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Miss Sherwin confided her latest scheme—moral motion pictures for country districts, with light from a portable dynamo hitched to a Ford engine.†
Chpt 5 *confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Mrs. Perry confided, "My, it's a shame we got to entertain you in such a cramped place.†
Chpt 12
- Oh, what is there to confide?†
Chpt 13confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- But I'm not the faithless wife who enjoys confiding that she's 'misunderstood.'†
Chpt 14confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Carol heard him confiding to Bea, "You're a darn nice Swede girl.†
Chpt 16
- "I don't want to hand myself anything but I believe I'll give a swell performance in this first act," confided Juanita.†
Chpt 18confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- When Jim Howland stopped and gaped at her there was no possibility that he was about to confide anything but his grudging, "Well, haryuh t'day?"†
Chpt 24confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Mrs. Jack Elder added that this Erik Valborg had confided to Mrs. Gurrey that he would "love to design clothes for women."†
Chpt 28confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Mrs. Kennicott confided to Ye Scribe that she will be connected with one of the multifarious war activities now centering in the Nation's Capital for a brief period before returning.†
Chpt 36
- Guy Pollock wrote to a cousin, a temporary army captain, a confiding and buoyant lad who took Carol to tea-dances, and laughed, as she had always wanted some one to laugh, about nothing in particular.†
Chpt 37confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- She ran to them, she kissed Juanita, while Harry confided, "Hadn't expected to come to Washington—had to go to New York for some buying—didn't have your address along—just got in this morning—wondered how in the world we could get hold of you."†
Chpt 38confided = placed 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."