Synonyms for confide
kənˈfaɪdcon·fide

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1. confide

   Commit, in the sense here considered, is to give in charge, put into care or keeping; to confide or entrust is to commit especially to one's fidelity, confide being used chiefly of mental or spiritual, entrust also of material things; we assign a duty, confide a secret, entrust a treasure; we commit thoughts to writing; commit a paper to the flames, a body to the earth; a prisoner is committed to jail. Consign is a formal word in mercantile use; as, to consign goods to an agent. Religiously, we consign the body to the grave, commit the soul to God. Compare DO.

   Synonyms:
   assign, commit, consign, entrust, relegate, trust

   Preposition:
   Commit to a friend for safe-keeping; in law, commit to prison; for trial; without bail; in default of bail; on suspicion.

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1. confide

   Synonyms:
   trust, lean, hope, believe, depend, rely

   Antonyms:
   doubt, distrust, disbelieve

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1. confideverb

   reveal in private; tell confidentially

   Synonyms:
   trust, entrust, commit, intrust

2. entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commitverb

   confer a trust upon

   "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"

   Synonyms:
   institutionalize, put, charge, dedicate, intrust, trust, devote, practice, invest, pull, institutionalise, consecrate, give, hope, desire, swear, entrust, perpetrate, commit, leave, bank, rely, place, send, believe

Matched Categories

1. • Disclose

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1. confideverb

   Synonyms:
   trust, intrust, commit, consign, give in trust

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1. List of paraphrases for "confide":

   entrust

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1. Bruno Grollemund:

   This is particularly important for midwives and pediatric nurses who are the medical staff in whom parents confide most readily, if full use is made of these teams and careful attention is paid to the child as a unique being, the parents will feel less isolated, and will be in a better position to reach the decisions that will affect their future.

2. Proverb:

   Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will speak.

3. Albert Camus:

   We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

4. Michelangelo:

   The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

5. Thomas Jefferson:

   We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.