All 6 Uses
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The Horse Whisperer
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- It's okay, I already ate," Hank confided to Annie.†
Chpt 17confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- They were Black Angus like the herd at the Double Divide and Annie had to fight the urge to confide some knowing remark about them based on the little she'd gleaned from Tom and Frank on branding day.†
Chpt 19confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Well, they all had, but there was something special about the way Diane talked with her, something confiding, almost sisterly.†
Chpt 19 *confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- "Shoot, shovel and shut the hell up," he confided.†
Chpt 23confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Diane confided to Annie that the first time Frank tried it on her, he'd got her sitting fully clothed in a cattle trough.†
Chpt 27
- Tom smiled and looked confidingly at Annie.†
Chpt 30
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."