confide
Meaning of confide
- tell someone about a secret or private matter while trusting them not to repeat it to others.
he confided his fears to his mother
he confided that stress had caused him to lose a stone in weight
‘I have been afraid,’ she confided
late 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 century.
Information about confide
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of confide is: confides.
- Languages in which confide is used:
(Press the button to hear it)
Hyphenation of confide
con-fide
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- confide is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
confide synonyms
Meaning entrust:
entrust, intrust, trust, commit
Meaning make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others:
Meaning make (secret or new information) known:
Meaning make known (private or sensitive information):
Meaning (of a container or covering) accidentally lose or admit contents, especially liquid or gas, through a hole or crack:
Meaning expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy:
Meaning make (information) known:
Meaning announce officially or publicly:
Meaning make a formal public statement about a fact, occurrence, or intention:
Meaning give a spoken or written account of something that one has observed, heard, done, or investigated:
Meaning say something in a solemn and emphatic manner:
Meaning closely acquainted; familiar:
Meaning remove a cover or covering from:
Meaning expose the true character of or hidden truth about:
Meaning make (something) visible by uncovering it:
Meaning open or spread out from a folded position:
Meaning give or grant (something) to (someone) in a gracious or condescending manner:
Meaning communicate information to someone in spoken or written words:
Meaning admit that one has committed a crime or done something wrong:
Meaning confess to be true or to be the case:
Meaning talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way:
Meaning reveal secrets by indiscreet talk:
Meaning cause or allow (liquid) to flow over the edge of its container, especially unintentionally:
Meaning find unexpectedly or during a search:
Translation of confide
- French: compter
- German: verlassen, vertrauen
- Spanish: confiar, fiarse
- Italian: fidarsi, affidarsi, affidare, consegnare, raccomandare
- Portuguese: confiar
Words that rhyme with confide
fide, mitonafide, pinafide, undefide, diffide, mercifide, sacrifide, aminoethylsulfide, aminophenyldisulfide, anhydrosulfide, azosulfide, benzoylthiamindisulfide, benzyldisulfide, benzylhydrosulfide, bisulfide, bromophenylsulfide, butyldisulfide, butylsulfide, chloroethylsulfide, chlorophenyltrifluoromethylsulfide, chloropropylsulfide, chlorosulfide, cyclopentylsulfide, decasulfide, diallyldisulfide, diallyltrisulfide, dibenzylsulfide, dicyanotrisulfide, dicyclohexyldisulfide, dicyclohexylsulfide, dihydroxydiphenylsulfide, diisopropylsulfide, dimethylaminomethylisopropylsulfide, dimethyldisulfide, dimethylsulfide, dimethyltrisulfide, dinitrophenylsulfide, dipentylsulfide, diphenyldisulfide, diphenylsulfide, dipiperidinyldicyclohexylsulfide, dipyridoxolyldisulfide, disulfide, episulfide, ethylisopropylsulfide, ethylpropylsulfide, ethylsulfide, foetisulfide, furfurylsulfide, furoyldisulfide