confess
confess is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
- transitive verb. To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- transitive verb. To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
- transitive verb. To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
- transitive verb. To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.
- transitive verb. To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
- intransitive verb. To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
- intransitive verb. To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
- verb. admit (to a wrongdoing)
"She confessed that she had taken the money"
- verb. confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
- verb. confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
Synonyms
concede, profess, fink, squeal
Common word forms
confessed, confesser, confesses, confessing, confessable
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