confide vs discover

confide and discover both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confide	No	No	Yes	No
discover	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, discover is a hypernym of confide; that is, discover is a word with a broader meaning than confide:

confide: reveal in private; tell confidentially
discover: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Other hypernyms of confide include break, bring out, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap.

confide (verb)	discover (verb)
reveal in private; tell confidentially	get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
confer a trust upon	identify as in botany or biology, for example
	make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
	make a discovery, make a new finding
	see for the first time; make a discovery
	discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
	find unexpectedly