If you confide in someone, you tell them a secret.
to tell sb secrets and personal information that you do not want other people to know （向某人）吐露（秘密、隐私等）
~ sth (to sb)
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。
~ (to sb) 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。
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’It was a lie,’ he confided.
“这是谎言。” 他透露说。
confess
If someone confesses to doing something wrong, they admit that they did it
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