All 3 Uses
confide
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Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee
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- She leans close and confides, "The things that really matter to me I can't share with anyone outside the group.†
p. 123.5confides = places trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- They'd been trying, according to Nirmala, who blushingly confided the occasional marital intimacy.†
p. 143.7confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- Wylie'd confided before she left that Stuart was joining her.†
p. 183.1 *
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."