confess

  • 41confess — con·fess || kÉ™n fes v. admit (guilt, etc.); declare faith in; tell one s sins to a priest …

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  • 42confess v — I organized that big party for the prisoners, Tom confessed …

    English expressions

  • 43confess — I. v. a. 1. Acknowledge (as a crime or fault), own, avow, admit. 2. Admit, grant, concede, recognize. 3. (Poetical.) Attest, prove, show, exhibit, manifest, be proof of. 4. Receive or hear one s confession (as a priest), shrive. II …

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  • 44confess — v 1. acknowledge, admit, allow, grant, concede, avow, own, Inf. own up, Sl. fess up, Sl. come clean, Sl. cop a plea, plead guilty; disbosom, unbosom oneself, make a clean breast, take the load off one s mind, come out with, Inf. get it off one s… …

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  • 45confess — con·fess …

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  • 46confess — [kənˈfes] verb [I/T] 1) to admit that you have done something illegal or wrong Simpson has confessed to taking the money.[/ex] He confessed that he had been seeing another woman.[/ex] 2) to admit something that you are embarrassed about He… …

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  • 47confess —   Mihi, hō ike i ka hana i hana ia.   Also: mimihi, mihimihi, mimimihi, ha i, ha ina …

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  • 48confess — To admit as true; to assent to; to concede. To admit the truth of a charge or accusation. Usually spoken of charges of tortious or criminal conduct. See confession …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 49confess — To admit as true; to assent to; to concede. To admit the truth of a charge or accusation. Usually spoken of charges of tortious or criminal conduct. See confession …

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  • 50confess — v. 1 a tr. (also absol.) acknowledge or admit (a fault, wrongdoing, etc.). b intr. (foll. by to) admit to (confessed to having lied). 2 tr. admit reluctantly (confessed it would be difficult). 3 a tr. (also absol.) declare (one s sins) to a… …

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