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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of confide.

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Examples

  • Einstein confided that this attitude made him suspect that the Brandeis crowd was “committing sabotage” of his mission.

    How Einstein Divided America's Jews 2009

  • Einstein confided that this attitude made him suspect that the Brandeis crowd was “committing sabotage” of his mission.

    How Einstein Divided America's Jews 2009

  • The key, he confided, is to take at least one major fishing trip a year.

    The Greatest Fishing Lodges in the World 2007

  • I have in my possession a MS. work in French, confided to me by a friend, whose name alone would give it celebrity were it permitted to be mentioned.

    Letters 1760

  • He was challenged by the sentinels; he gave the word confided to him by Murat, and was instantly made prisoner by the soldiers.

    Ferdinando Eboli 2002

  • Wainwood gave her name and confided that she was a female of easy virtue with whom he had consorted in Boston before the war.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Wainwood gave her name and confided that she was a female of easy virtue with whom he had consorted in Boston before the war.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Wainwood gave her name and confided that she was a female of easy virtue with whom he had consorted in Boston before the war.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Wainwood gave her name and confided that she was a female of easy virtue with whom he had consorted in Boston before the war.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • Mukti looked on, appalled, and noticing his expression Busner confided: 'Y'know, you can take the man out of the institution - but after half a century odd, you can't deprive him altogether of the institutional food.'

    The Guardian World News 2011

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