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Confide

verb

(past & past part. confided; pres. part. confiding)

Reveal in private; tell confidentially.

Confer a trust upon. Synonyms: commit, entrust, intrust, trust. "I commit my soul to God"

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"Confide" Quotes from Famous Books

... but why don't you confide in me? I believe I could sympathize with you; I also believe ...

— A Bunch of Cherries - A Story of Cherry Court School • L. T. Meade

... you could confide in an old man?" he queried gently. "You are much neglected, and I—I understand the thoughts that must come to you sometimes. Perhaps you would be happier elsewhere ...

— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne

... discovery was great. Fortunately she managed to secure the good offices of a friendly housemaid, who carried away the cage, and promised to present the mice to her young brother when she went for her night out to Whitecliffe. To nobody but Ailsa did Dona confide the trick she had played, and Ailsa, being of Scottish birth, could keep ...

— A Patriotic Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

... to entrust honest Cap with so much of her story as would engage her interest and co-operation, and then confide to her care a letter to be placed in the post-office. Clara had scarcely come to this resolution ere, as we said, an imminent crisis obliged her to seek the further aid ...

— Capitola's Peril - A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' • Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth

... not on the way to an unknown region. For a moment he wished that he could talk freely, openly, with some understanding friend, a man of course. But though he had plenty of men friends he could not think of one he would be able to confide ...

— December Love • Robert Hichens

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