Both Uses
confide
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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- One night Mom had a little too much wine at dinner and confided to us all that, before we were born, and after she realized her children would have Dad's also-not-Jewish last name, she decided she wanted all of us to be "surprise Jews."†
p. 50.4 *confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Later, Rachel confided to me that Scott Mayhew had a big crush on Anna.†
p. 124.5
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) 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."