confide vs uncover

confide and uncover both are verbs.

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

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

confide: reveal in private; tell confidentially
uncover: 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, reveal, unwrap.

confide (verb)	uncover (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	remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
	reveal to view as by removing a cover