Associations to the word «Confide»

Wiktionary

CONFIDE, verb. (intransitive) (now rare) To trust, have faith (in).
CONFIDE, verb. (transitive) (dated) To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
CONFIDE, verb. (intransitive) To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with. ( + in)
CONFIDE, verb. (transitive) (intransitive) To say (something) in confidence.

Dictionary definition

CONFIDE, verb. Reveal in private; tell confidentially.
CONFIDE, verb. Confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope