All 4 Uses of
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Rose Red
- —Joyce Reardon, November 2000 ellen rimbauer the diary of 17 april 1907-seattle Dear Diary: I find it a somewhat daunting task to endeavor to place my thoughts here inside your trusted pages, I scarcely know if I am up to the task, but as my head is filled with lurid thoughts, and my heart with romance and possibility, I find I must confide in someone, and so it is to your pages I now turn.†
Chpt 2confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- With no other trustworthy woman in whom to confide, I have no idea if this is normal or not, though I must admit it is thoroughly exhausting, if in no other way in terms of bathing and dressing.†
Chpt 2 *
- I think I shall order Sukeena to destroy you, Dear Diary, if I should pass at childbirth, or in any way for that matter, for the secrets I confide here should never reach another's eyes.†
Chpt 4
- John ....it seems John would not return Connie's notes ...and since it seemed unjust to Melissa that he should ....for you see, she had confided in me the nature of their ....their friendship.†
Chpt 4confided = 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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(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."