To share a secret with; to talk of sensitive and personal issues with (someone).

Dated form of confidence.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confide in

present participle of confide in

simple past tense and past participle of confide in

Synonym of vote of confidence

A motion proposed in a parliament or other assembly to give members the chance to express their confidence in a government; sometimes proposed by a government to counter a vote of no confidence proposed by the opposition; defeat would lead to the resignation of the government.

A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won.

Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust, a con man or con artist.

(politics) A vote of no confidence.