confide
Example Sentences
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"Perhaps shame fades all the more easily when you're 70, and no one pays attention to you anymore. I don't know. I wasn't afraid of my wrinkles, or my body," she confided.
From Barron's
She started to confide in friends about stress, or things that bothered her, which otherwise would have stayed inside.
From Los Angeles Times
And the only other person I could have confided in or teamed up with was dead!
From Literature
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Other cops suspected they were internal spies, headhunters, a rumor that started when a beat officer confided to the chief’s office that a bookmaking barber was inviting cops to “get on the take.”
From Los Angeles Times
As more emails emerge, there's a growing impression of how much Ferguson seemed to depend on Epstein, telling him he was her "pillar" and confiding "I have been so so sad".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.