confide
/kənˈfaɪd/
confide verb: to trust or have faith (in).
Verb
confide (third-person singular simple present confides, present participle confiding, simple past and past participle confided)
- To trust or have faith (in).
- I confide in her judgement in this matter.
- You can confide in him doing the right thing.
- To take (someone) into one's confidence; to speak in secret with.
- I could no longer keep this secret alone; I had to confide in my brother.
- She confided in me about her plan to rob the bank.
- To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
- I confide this mission to you alone.
- To say (something) in confidence.
- After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman.
- She confided that her marriage had been in trouble for some time.
confide meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
confide in Tamil
- நம்பிக்கை வை
confide in Bengali
- গোপন কথা বলা
confide in Telugu
- to confide, trust
- నచ్చు naccu
confide in Malayalam
- വിശ്വസിക്കുക, മനസ്സുറപ്പിക്കുക, ഒരാളെ വിശ്വസിച്ച് രഹസ്യങ്ങൾ പറയുക, ചുമതലപ്പെടുത്തുക
More languagesFewer languages
- confide in Kannada
- ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಿಟ್ಟು ತಿಳಿಸು, ಗುಟ್ಟನ್ನು ಹೇಳು, ನಂಬು
- confide in Arabic
- نَاجَى nājā
- confide in Indonesian
- curhat
Examples of confide in a sentence
- "Be calm, lovely Antonia!" he replied; "no danger in near you: confide in my protection."1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 269:
- I shall do nothing rashly: you know me sufficiently to confide in my prudence and consideration whenever the safety of others is committed to my care.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London...
- One student had been so afraid to come out to our meetings that he would secretly meet me in the bookshelves of the library and confide about the miseries of being gay, closeted, and a virgin.1977 December 10, Mark N. Silber, “Gays On Campus — One Story”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 15:
Forms of confide
| third-person singular present | confides |
|---|---|
| present participle | confiding |
| past participle | confided |
| past | confided |
Origin of confide
From Middle Scots confide, confyde (“to put trust in”), from Latin confīdere (“to put trust in, have confidence in”), from con- (“together”) + fidēre (“to trust”). First attested in English use in the early 17th century. Doublet of faith and fidelity.
Words formed from confide
Words that rhyme with confide
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- provide
- tied
- fried
- glide
- hide
- inside
- bide
- decide
- offside
- -side
- collide
- flipside
- set aside
- stride
- subside
- aside
- beride
- beside
- bestride
- chide
- coincide
- cyanide
- dried
- elide
- eyed
- gride
- preside
- reside
- Ryde
- allied
- applied
- astride
- betide
- bride
- deride
- dyed
- guyed
- I'd
- imide
- incide
- pied
- right side
- said
- snide
- statewide
- tried
- vide
- allide
Questions about confide
- What does confide mean?
- Confide means to trust or have faith (in).
- What is confide in Tamil?
- Confide in Tamil is நம்பிக்கை வை. See Confide meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use confide in a sentence?
- "Be calm, lovely Antonia!" he replied; "no danger in near you: confide in my protection."
- What part of speech is confide?
- Confide is a verb.
- How do you pronounce confide?
- Confide is pronounced /kənˈfaɪd/.
- What is the past tense of confide?
- The past tense of confide is confided.
Words near confide in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: confide (page history and authors); confide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confide (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); నచ్చు (Telugu) (page history and authors); confide (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); confide (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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