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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

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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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How to use confide in a sentence?

  1. Rudyard Kipling:

    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.

  2. Albert Camus:

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

  3. 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.

  4. Robert Hall:

    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.

  5. Proverb:

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


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