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kənˈfaɪdcon·fide
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, trustPreposition:
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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Princeton's WordNet
confideverb
reveal in private; tell confidentially
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
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confideverb
Synonyms:
trust, intrust, commit, consign, give in trust
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#316 | place | |
#555 | give | |
#679 | put | |
#875 | bank | |
#956 | practice | |
#1069 | believe | |
#1086 | hope | |
#1129 | leave | |
#1453 | charge | |
#1495 | trust | |
#3810 | pull | |
#4015 | desire | |
#4105 | commit | |
#6073 | depend | |
#6187 | invest | |
#6623 | rely | |
#8011 | assign | |
#8525 | lean | |
#13628 | swear | |
#20131 | devote | |
#26228 | dedicate | |
#39367 | entrust | |
#69751 | confide | |
#81532 | consign | |
#85968 | institutionalize | |
#89565 | perpetrate | |
#92642 | consecrate | |
#109510 | relegate | |
#119253 | intrust | |
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How to use confide in a sentence?
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
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.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will speak.
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