confide
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they confide | |
| he / she / it confides | |
| past simple confided | |
| past participle confided | |
| -ing form confiding |
to tell somebody secrets and personal information that you do not want other people to know （向某人）吐露（秘密、隐私等） - confide something (to somebody)
She confided all her secrets to her best friend. 她向她最要好的朋友倾吐了自己所有的秘密。 - confide (to somebody) that…
He confided to me that he had applied for another job. 他向我透露他已申请另一份工作。 - + speech
‘It was a lie,’ he confided. “这是谎言。” 他透露说。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘place trust (in)’): from Latin confidere ‘have full trust’. The sense ‘impart as a secret’ dates from the mid 18th cent.- confide something (to somebody)