confide.
To have confidence in someone.
Meaning & usage
To have confidence in someone. To trust or have faith (in).
I confide in her judgement in this matter.
You can confide in him doing the right thing.
To have confidence in someone. 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.
Where this word comes from
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.
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