English > confide: 2 senses > verb 1, communication| Meaning | reveal in private; tell confidentially. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something to somebody; Somebody ----s PP |
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| Model | They confide that there was a traffic accident |
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| Entails | trust | Have confidence or faith in |
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| Narrower | unbosom, relieve | relieve oneself of troubling information |
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| Broader | unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out, uncover | Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret |
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| Spanish | confiar |
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| Nouns | confidant | someone to whom private matters are confided |
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| confidence | a secret that is confided or entrusted to another |