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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.
Michelangelo

Meaning of "confide" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CONFIDE

From Latin confīdere, from fīdere to trust; related to Latin foedus treaty.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFIDE

confide  [kənˈfaɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFIDE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Confide is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb confide in English.

WHAT DOES CONFIDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Confide

Confide was an American metalcore band from South Gate, California, formed in 2004. They have released two EPs and three full-length albums. Although all the members of the group are openly Christian, they have not been marketed in the Christian market since the band is on a secular label. The band toured across the United States, from their home state of California to the East Coast, in 2008. On October 4, 2010, Frontman Ross Kenyon announced that the band would be disbanding after their Japan tour. The band played their farewell show on November 7, 2010 in Pomona, CA. The band temporarily reformed in August 2012 to write and record their third full-length record titled "All is Calm" through Kickstarter. All is Calm was released on July 30, 2013 and a short tour was booked to promote the new record. Although Confide has stated they will not be reforming permanently, drummer Joel Piper said that there is possibility for them to play again in the future, but nothing permanent.

Definition of confide in the English dictionary

The first definition of confide in the dictionary is usually foll by in; when tr, may take a clause as object to disclose in confidence ; reveal in private. Other definition of confide is foll by in to have complete trust. Confide is also to entrust into another's keeping.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CONFIDE

PRESENT

Present
I confide
you confide
he/she/it confides
we confide
you confide
they confide
Present continuous
I am confiding
you are confiding
he/she/it is confiding
we are confiding
you are confiding
they are confiding
Present perfect
I have confided
you have confided
he/she/it has confided
we have confided
you have confided
they have confided
Present perfect continuous
I have been confiding
you have been confiding
he/she/it has been confiding
we have been confiding
you have been confiding
they have been confiding
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I confided
you confided
he/she/it confided
we confided
you confided
they confided
Past continuous
I was confiding
you were confiding
he/she/it was confiding
we were confiding
you were confiding
they were confiding
Past perfect
I had confided
you had confided
he/she/it had confided
we had confided
you had confided
they had confided
Past perfect continuous
I had been confiding
you had been confiding
he/she/it had been confiding
we had been confiding
you had been confiding
they had been confiding
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will confide
you will confide
he/she/it will confide
we will confide
you will confide
they will confide
Future continuous
I will be confiding
you will be confiding
he/she/it will be confiding
we will be confiding
you will be confiding
they will be confiding
Future perfect
I will have confided
you will have confided
he/she/it will have confided
we will have confided
you will have confided
they will have confided
Future perfect continuous
I will have been confiding
you will have been confiding
he/she/it will have been confiding
we will have been confiding
you will have been confiding
they will have been confiding
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would confide
you would confide
he/she/it would confide
we would confide
you would confide
they would confide
Conditional continuous
I would be confiding
you would be confiding
he/she/it would be confiding
we would be confiding
you would be confiding
they would be confiding
Conditional perfect
I would have confide
you would have confide
he/she/it would have confide
we would have confide
you would have confide
they would have confide
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been confiding
you would have been confiding
he/she/it would have been confiding
we would have been confiding
you would have been confiding
they would have been confiding
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you confide
we let´s confide
you confide
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to confide
Past participle
confided
Present Participle
confiding
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONFIDE


amplified
ˈæmplɪˌfaɪd
certified
ˈsɜːtɪˌfaɪd
classified
ˈklæsɪˌfaɪd
defied
dɪˈfaɪd
diversified
daɪˈvɜːsɪˌfaɪd
horrified
ˈhɒrɪˌfaɪd
identified
aɪˈdentɪˌfaɪd
justified
ˈdʒʌstɪfaɪd
modified
ˈmɒdɪfaɪd
notified
ˈnəʊtɪfaɪd
purified
ˈpjʊərɪfaɪd
qualified
ˈkwɒlɪˌfaɪd
satisfied
ˈsætɪsfaɪd
simplified
ˈsɪmplɪfaɪd
terrified
ˈterɪfaɪd
undefied
ˌʌndɪˈfaɪd
unidentified
ˌʌnaɪˈdɛntɪˌfaɪd
unified
ˈjuːnɪˌfaɪd
unspecified
ʌnˈspɛsɪˌfaɪd
unverified
ʌnˈvɛrɪˌfaɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFIDE

confidant
confidante
confidence
confidence game
confidence interval
confidence level
confidence man
confidence trick
confidence trickster
confidence vote
confidency
confident
confidential
confidentiality
confidentially
confidentialness
confidently
confider
confiding
confidingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFIDE

aide
at the outside
bisulfide
bona fide
de fide
decide
disulfide
guide
hide
inside
mala fide
on one side
on the side
outside
pride
provide
ride
side
slide
trisulfide

Synonyms and antonyms of confide in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONFIDE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «confide» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of confide

Translation of «confide» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFIDE

Find out the translation of confide to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of confide from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confide» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

吐露
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confiar
570 millions of speakers

English

confide
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विश्वास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اعهد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

довериться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

confiar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নির্ভর করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

se confier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Confide
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sich anvertrauen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

打ち明ける
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비밀을 털어놓다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngandel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tâm sự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நம்பி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विश्वास ठेवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

güvenmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

confidarsi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zwierzyć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

довіритися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

destăinui
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εμπιστευτούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vertrou
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anförtro
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

betro
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confide

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFIDE»

The term «confide» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.218 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFIDE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «confide» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «confide» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about confide

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9 QUOTES WITH «CONFIDE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word confide.
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Balthus
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Abraham Clark
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
3
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.
4
Burt Lancaster
A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
5
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.
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George Muller
If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.
7
Anne Roiphe
I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other most of the time. Of course, sometimes we are competitive or angry or distant, too. But I do think it is important not to let the main friendships slip away in the sweep of the days.
8
Gretchen Rubin
We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.
9
Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFIDE»

Discover the use of confide in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confide and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
200 confide in and -enter. Today the forms confidant and confidante predominate in both AmE and BrE, though confidante is falling into disuse because of what is increasingly thought to be a needless distinction between males and females.
Bryan A. Garner, 2001
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The Advocate
On your schedule, on your terms With Confide," there are no lines to wait in, no appointments to keep, nothing to interfere with your schedule. You don't have to fill out complicated forms or tell your life story to anyone. With Confide, you're free  ...
3
Confide in Me, I Come in Peace: (Behold, the Divine Negotiator)
The story portrays an impressive young nurse, Juliette, who would jeopardize her own life in order to expose the cruel and gloomy mission of SOCODWO, a humanitarian organization that spreads HIV worldwide under the umbrella of 'providing ...
Emmanuel Richard Tchami, 2009
4
Confide
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Confide was an American metalcore band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2004.
Aaron Philippe Toll, 2012
5
Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing
On 3 July 1997, pharmaceutical manufacturer Johnson and Johnson announced that because of low sales, it was pulling from the market its home collection HIV test kit named Confide, marking the end of the product's short marketing life and ...
J. Blake Scott, 2003
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English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
254. CONFIDE. CONFIDENT. TO CONFER, BESTOW. CONFER, in French conferer, Latin confero, compounded of con and fero, signifies to bring something towards a person, or place it upon nim. BESTOW is compounded of be and flow,  ...
George Crabb, 1818
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Rhetorical Bodies
J. Blake Scott Rhetoric and Technoscience The Case of Confide On 3 July 1997, the pharmaceutical manufacturer Johnson & Johnson announced that it was pulling from the market (on account of low sales) its home collection HIV test kit ...
Jack Selzer, Sharon Crowley, 1999
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English Synonymes, with Copious Illustrations and ...
Belief) as the species to the genus; w* always trust when we confide, but not rice versé. We confide to a person that which Is of the greatest Importance to ourselves ; we trust to him whenever we rest on his word for any thing. We need rely only ...
George Crabb, 1848
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Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI: Works of Love
IX 146 confide everything to them or to confide in them in the same way as she confides in her husband, with whom she has her most intimate relationship-—— but also her most confidential one—in whom she can actually confide only with ...
Søren Kierkegaard, 2013
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The Harleian miscellany:: a collection of scarce, curious, ...
tershire, Lancashire, Somersetshire, Northamptonshire, and other places ; and therefore we must needs conceive, that the king is put upon these courses and ways by his evil counsellors, and, consequently, that the parliament cannot confide ...
William Oldys, Edward Harley Oxford (Earl of), Thomas Park, 1810

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFIDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confide is used in the context of the following news items.
1
EastEnders spoilers: Lee struggles to confide in Mick over his …
Troubled EastEnders character Lee Carter struggles to find the right moment to confide in his family next week. Lee (Danny-Boy Hatchard) will ... «Digital Spy UK, Jul 15»
2
'Conch Blocked'
... toast: “I find girlfriends are the most important thing because you can confide in them… and they can help you with your business ideas. «Entertainment Weekly, Jul 15»
3
Man sentenced for raping his stepdaughter
“She was able to confide to her friend as to what the accused was doing to her. The friend alerted the victim's mother and a case of rape was ... «Jacaranda FM, Jul 15»
4
Officials: The best way to fight child abuse is by reporting it
That doesn't mean abuse doesn't happen; it just doesn't get reported as often, she said. "Kids confide in each other during school," she said. «Herald-Mail Media, Jul 15»
5
No job too small adds up to a full-time job
Scot's small business grew out of his stint working at Elliott's Ace Hardware in Elm Grove, where customers would often confide in him about the ... «Brookfield Elm Grove Now, Jul 15»
6
The dog days are not as fun as they sound
I've never been so silly and absent-minded before, so I decided to confide in a friend. Turns out he himself, only that day, had got a bump on his ... «Portsmouth News, Jul 15»
7
Australia Post delivery contractors underpaying workers, withholding …
When he became worried he decided to confide in his Australia Post supervisor, a move which cost him his job with Zion Group. Australia Post ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
8
9 Signs Everyone Is Jealous Of Your Relationship, Because People …
One of the great things about friends is that you can confide in them about anything and get honest feedback. But if you try to talk to your friends when things go a ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
9
Love Island's Naomi Ball has "no hard feelings" as Max & Jess reunite
Although, she did confide in Lauren Richardson that she still really likes him. Sounds like Jess and Max round two is pretty much on the cards, ... «Reveal, Jul 15»
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EastEnders, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks: we take a look at tonight's top …
Martin's furious, but will Stacey confide in him? And will Jean catch Stacey with the key again? Emmerdale, ITV, 7pm. Bob is on pins when ... «Reveal, Jul 15»

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