All 3 Uses of
confide
in
Black Like Me
- His heavy face shone with delight at what I had done and delight that I should confide it to him.†
*confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Placated, P. D. and I confided my project to the Dean and his beautiful wife.†
confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- It was a look, however, overspread with delight; The look of surprise and vast amusement on Dr. Benjamin Mays's intelligent face when I confided to him my journey as a Negro; At Spelman College, hearing Rosalyn Pope play magnificently the Bach Toccata in D, and then the strange, bewildered expression on her face when she told me about arriving in Paris to spend a year studying piano—the strangeness of living in a great city where 1 Bardolph, The Negro Vanguard, New York: Rinehart & Co., 1959.†
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."