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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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"Owen had some more to say," Mr. Meany confided to us.†
p. 142.1

confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
When Mr. Early, who was Marley's Ghost, began to hack and sniffle, Dan confided to me that it would be perfect symmetry—for the play—if all the ghosts came down with something.†
p. 207.9 *
He confided to Owen and me that he was a little nervous about attending church; that he'd never once been forced to go to church when he was a child—his parents had not been religious, either—and that he'd only "set foot" in churches for weddings and funerals.†
p. 213.6
A friend of the family—a priest—is confiding to Mrs. Satterthwaite his opinion of how her daughter will, one day, respond to an infidelity of her husband's, which the priest believes is only to be expected.†
p. 499.1

confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things

Definitions:

(1) (confide)
to place trust (in someone) by talking about private things or telling secrets
(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."