confide

About 0.88 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To have confidence in someone. To trust or have faith (in).

   I confide in her judgement in this matter.

2. verb To trust or have faith (in).

   I confide in her judgement in this matter.

3. verb To take (someone) into one's confidence; to speak in secret with.

   I could no longer keep this secret alone; I had to confide in my brother.

4. verb To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.

   I confide this mission to you alone.

5. verb To say (something) in confidence.

   After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman.

Similar words

entrust trust commit intrust rely assign share outsource devolve confide in

Often followed by

in to the his her their it that my

Word family

confided confider confiders confides confiding