All 4 Uses of
confide
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- "Arcadio is building a house," she confided with feigned pride to her husband as she tried to put a spoonful of calabash syrup into his mouth.†
Chpt 6 *confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Once Aureliano Segundo became so impatient with the suffocating fluttering that she felt the impulse to confide her secret to him as she had promised, but instinct told her that he would laugh as usual and say: "What would your mother say if she found out?"†
Chpt 14confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Then she confided in her son Jose Arcadio and the latter sent her the pessaries from Rome along with a pamphlet explaining their use, which she flushed down the toilet after committing it to memory so that no one would learn the nature of her troubles.†
Chpt 17confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- It was the first time that Nigromanta had had a steady man, a bone crusher from head to toe, as she herself said, dying with laughter, and she had even begun to get romantic illusions when Aureliano confided in her about his repressed passion for Amaranta Ursula, which he had not been able to cure with the substitution but which was twisting him inside all the more as experience broadened the horizons of love.†
Chpt 19
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."