Third-person singular present tense of confide; tells someone your secrets or private thoughts because you trust them.
From confide (Latin confidere, com- + fidere). The -es ending marks third-person singular in present tense for regular verbs.
When someone confides in you, you're literally being trusted with something valuable—psychologically, confiding deepens relationships more than almost any other human behavior, which explains why the word has stayed so emotionally loaded.
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