confide vs reveal

confide and reveal both are verbs.

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

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

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

confide (verb)	reveal (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	make manifest
	disclose directly or through prophets