All 13 Uses
confide
in
Harry Potter (#6) and the Half-Blood Prince
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- He did not ask Harry why he had not confided in the Dursleys.†
Chpt 3confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.†
Chpt 4confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- 'Harry Potter knows that he can confide in me with complete confidence,' I told them.†
Chpt 8confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- He died some time ago, but not before I had tracked him down and persuaded him to confide these recollections to me.†
Chpt 10
- Then why not confide in me, and I can —†
Chpt 15
- He was careful never to reveal as much again, but he could not take back what he had let slip in his excitement, nor what Mrs. Cole had confided in me.†
Chpt 17confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Birthday Surprises The next day Harry confided in both Ron and Hermione the task that Dumbledore had set him, though separately, for Hermione still refused to remain in Ron's presence longer than it took to give him a contemptuous look.†
Chpt 18
- Perhaps Dumbledore did not think it right to confide suspicions about his staff to sixteen-year-olds.†
Chpt 19confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Hardly anyone knew of it at the time — I was one of the few in whom the then headmaster confided — but Voldemort first approached Professor Dippet and asked whether he could remain at Hogwarts as a teacher.†
Chpt 20confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- "I believe he had several reasons, though he confided none of them to Professor Dippet," said Dumbledore.†
Chpt 20
- "You'd do better," said Hermione, when he confided this plan to Ron and her in the entrance hall, "to go straight to Slughorn's of-fice and try and get that memory from him."†
Chpt 21
- "Well, it is inadvisable to do so," said Dumbledore, "because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.†
Chpt 23confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- 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.
Chpt 29 *confide = tell confidentially
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."