All 10 Uses of
confide
in
Interview with the Vampire
- 'There is no bed in there,' they confided one to the other with nodding heads.†
Part 1 *confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- I sat there straining to hear voices in the rooms above, wishing that he would shut up, not wishing to confide for a moment my feeling for Babette or my hopes.†
Part 1confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- 'I don't want it if it hurts you,' she confided so softly that a human embracing us both could not have heard her or felt her breath.†
Part 1confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- A play, a tragedy in one act: I to leave her in his little parlor and confide to him in the anteroom that she was to die.†
Part 1confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- I told him my name, which I confided to almost no one.†
Part 2confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- And he looked at me, his eyebrow arched as if he were confiding a terrible secret.†
Part 2confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- I even conceived a savage jealousy of the dollmaker to whom she'd confided her request for that tinkling diminutive lady, because that dollmaker had for a moment given her something which she held close to herself in my presence as if I were not there at all.†
Part 3confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- And oh, how much I wanted to confide to him the breadth of what I didn't understand; how, searching all these years, I'd been astonished to discover those vampires above had made of immortality a club of fads and cheap conformity.†
Part 3confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Lestat, in fact, had aroused in me feelings which I hadn't wished to confide in anyone, feelings I'd wished to forget, despite Claudia's death.†
Part 4
- It seemed then that she had never existed That she had been some illogical, fantastical dream that, was too precious and too personal for me ever to confide in anyone.†
Part 4
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."