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confide
Meaning: to share a secret with someone trusted
confide in a sentence
How confide is used in real sentences:
She confided her plans only to her closest friend.
She confided her fears to her sister.
“I chose to confide in him and admitted that I feared becoming the next target.”
— from the passage The Locker Choice
Synonyms for confide
Other words for confide — entrust, disclose and impart — carry the same meaning.
- entrust
- disclose
- impart
Antonyms of confide
Words that mean the opposite of confide:
- conceal
- withhold
Where it comes from
From Latin confidere 'to trust fully'
Word parts
- con/com/col/cor/co — together, with
confide: con- (together, fully) + fide (trust, from fidere) - fid — faith, trust
confide: con- (fully) + fid (trust)
Memory hook
CON (with) + FIDE (faith) — share with faith.