confide vs give away

confide and give away both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confide	No	No	Yes	No
give away	No	No	Yes	No

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

confide: reveal in private; tell confidentially
give away: 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, discover, divulge, expose, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap.

confide (verb)	give away (verb)
reveal in private; tell confidentially	make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
confer a trust upon	give away information about somebody
	make a gift of
	formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father