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confide

verb
/kənˈfaɪd/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from confīdō
  2. borrowed from confide

Definitions

  1. To trust, have faith (in).

    • "Be calm, lovely Antonia!" he replied; "no danger in near you: confide in my protection."
    • 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.
    • In thy protection I confide.

  2. To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.

    • I confide this mission to you alone.

  3. To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with.

    • I could no longer keep this secret alone; I decided to confide in my brother.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. 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.
      • 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.

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Derived

confidable, confidee, confide in, confider, confiding, misconfide, reconfide, unconfided

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at confide. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01confide02confidence03self-assurance04self-confidence05self-confident06confident07self-reliant08trusting

A definitional loop anchored at confide. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at confide

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA