Verb

(en-verb)

To trust, have faith (in ).

* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 269:

"Be calm, lovely Antonia!" he replied; "no danger in near you: confide in my protection."

* 1818 , Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus , Everyman's Library 1973, p. 10:

"I shall do nothing rashly: you know me sufficiently to confide in my prudence and consideration whenever the safety of others is committed to my care."

* Byron

In thy protection I confide .

(dated) To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.

I confide this mission to you alone.

To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with. ( + in )

I could no longer keep this secret alone; I decided to confide in my brother.

(intransitive) To say (something) in confidence.

After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman.

She confided that her marriage had been in trouble for some time.

Verb

(en verb)

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city. e.g. Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat

To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.

To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.

To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally; to bewray.

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* 1966 , Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch, French rural history :

Again, to take a less extreme example, there is no denying that although the dialects of northern France retained their fundamentally Romance character, they betray many Germanic influences in phonetics and vocabulary, [...]

To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.

To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.