confide
verb /kənˈfaɪd/
/kənˈfaɪd/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they confide | /kənˈfaɪd/ /kənˈfaɪd/ |
| he / she / it confides | /kənˈfaɪdz/ /kənˈfaɪdz/ |
| past simple confided | /kənˈfaɪdɪd/ /kənˈfaɪdɪd/ |
| past participle confided | /kənˈfaɪdɪd/ /kənˈfaɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form confiding | /kənˈfaɪdɪŋ/ /kənˈfaɪdɪŋ/ |
- to tell somebody secrets and personal information that you do not want other people to know
- confide something (to somebody) She confided all her secrets to her best friend.
- confide (to somebody) that… He confided to me that he had applied for another job.
- + speech ‘It was a lie,’ he confided.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘place trust (in)’): from Latin confidere ‘have full trust’. The sense ‘impart as a secret’ dates from the mid 18th cent.