CONFIDED

Definition: CONFIDED

CONFIDED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Confide

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "CONFIDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: CONFIDED

English words defined with "CONFIDED": confidant, confidence ♦ intimate ♦ To feather one's nest. (references)

Specialty definitions using "CONFIDED": Confidant, Copper Captain. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Things saved for many a day are confided at the fair, Albany, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	Ultimately, when the essential brotherhood of man is truly embodied and expressed in a world organization with all the necessary practical safeguards to make it effective, these powers would naturally be confided to that world organization. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He confided her to the sisters, who put her to bed.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Indigenous People	Bangladesh	After their safe and peaceful release on March 17, one of the hostages told a newspaper reporter that one of his abductors had confided that the motive was not political but rather, they wanted money "for the welfare of Chakma people." On June 23, a Bengali truck driver in Khagrachhari District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts was murdered. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CONFIDANT, :CONFIDANTE:, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by him to C.
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Ellen Levin	Yeah, because it looked like it was going into deadlock, and Linda sat with us, too. She confided in us every step of the way with the plea bargain.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Nor have we used the power confided by the same act of prolonging the foreign debt by reloans, and of redeeming instead thereof an equal sum of the domestic debt.
James Madison	1809-1817	With this view, the proclamation of which a copy is laid before you was confided to the governor of that Territory to be carried into effect.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	The accompanying report of the Secretary of War will put you in possession of the operations of the Department confided to his care in all its diversified relations during the past year.
Martin van Buren	1837-1841	In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"CONFIDED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 72.98% of the time. "CONFIDED" is used about 285 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	72.98%	208	21,075
Lexical Verb (past participle)	27.02%	77	37,929
Total	100.00%	285	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "CONFIDED": confided-to.
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Language		Translations for "CONFIDED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		поверен (attorney, charged, entrusted, entrusting, fiduciary). (various references)

Chinese		倾诉 (Confide, Confiding). (various references)

French		confiai, confiés, confiâmes, confièrent, confia. (various references)

German		vertraute (confidant, confidante, familiar, intimate, trusted), anvertraut (entrusted). (various references)

Pig Latin		onfidedcay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"CONFIDED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cinfide, concided, confidat, confimed, consided. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "CONFIDED" (pronounced kunfī"dud)
4	-ī" d u d	abided, chided, coincided, collided, decided, derided, divided, glided, guided, lopsided, misguided, presided, prided, provided, resided, sided, subdivided, subsided, undecided, undivided.
3	-d u d	abounded, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, clouded, coded, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, descended, disbanded, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, pretended, proceeded, prodded, propounded, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, underfunded, underhanded, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-f-i-n-o"
	-1 letter: confide.
	-2 letters: codein, coifed, coined, foined, fonded.
	-3 letters: coded, coden, coned, diced, dined, diode, fiend, fined, nided.
	-4 letters: cedi, cine, cion, code, coed, coif, coin, cone, coni, deco, defi, deni, dice, dido, died, dine, done, eddo, fend, feod, fice, fico, fido, find, fine, fino, foci, foin, fond, iced, icon, info, neif, nice, nide, node.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-f-i-n-o"
	+2 letters: uncodified.
	+3 letters: forbiddance.
	+4 letters: disconfirmed, forbiddances.
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CONFIDED

Definition: CONFIDED

CONFIDED

Imperative & past participle

Crosswords: CONFIDED

Photo Album: CONFIDED

Historic Usage: CONFIDED

Winston S. Churchill

Use in Literature: CONFIDED

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: CONFIDED

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: CONFIDED

Ellen Levin

Speeches: CONFIDED

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

Andrew Jackson

Martin van Buren

Usage Frequency: CONFIDED

Expression: CONFIDED

Modern Translation: CONFIDED

Bulgarian

Chinese

French

German

Pig Latin

Misspellings: CONFIDED

Misspellings

Rhyming with "CONFIDED"

Anagrams: CONFIDED

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