All 17 Uses
confide
in
Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl
(Edited)
- I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.
p. 3.1confide = place trust (in someone) and talk about private things
- I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.
p. 3.1
- Maybe it's my fault that we don't confide in each other.
p. 9.4
- Up to now I've only confided my thoughts to my diary.
p. 33.9confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- I continued to sit with the open book in my hand and wonder why I was filled with so much anger and hate that I had to confide it all to you.
p. 170.9confide = place trust (in someone) and talk about private things
- I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't ever confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.
p. 185.2
- Who knows, maybe he doesn't even like me and he doesn't need anyone to confide in.
p. 210.2
- I'll have to go back to being alone, without anyone to confide in and without Peter, without hope, comfort or anything to look forward to.
p. 210.3
- But what affected me even more was the realization that I was never going to be able to confide in Father.
p. 227.6
- Margot is very kind and would like me to confide in her, but I can't tell her everything.
p. 232.9 *
- I don't want the person I confide in to be around me all the time.
p. 233.1
- We talked about how neither of us really trusts our parents, and how his parents love each other a great deal and wish he'd confide in them, but that he doesn't want to.
p. 243.7
- I, for that matter, didn't know him either, had never had someone I could confide in, and it's led to this ….
p. 297.4
- Of course, he's much more closed than I am, but I know from experience ... that in time, even the most uncommunicative types will long as much, or even more, for someone to confide in.
p. 342.3
- She's jealous that Peter confides in me and not in her, offended that Dussel doesn't respond sufficiently to her flirtations and afraid her husband's going to squander all the fur-coat money on tobacco.
p. 345.4confides = places trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- I've often imagined how nice it would be if someone were to confide everything to me.
p. 349.5confide = place trust (in someone) and talk about private things
- Besides, I can't confide in anyone unless they tell me a lot about themselves, and because I know very little about him, I can't get on a more intimate footing.
p. 356.1
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) 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."