Dictionary Entry
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.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- 3transitive verb
To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
- 4transitive verb
To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
- 5transitive verb
To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.
- 6transitive verb
To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
- 7intransitive verb
To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
- 8intransitive verb
To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
- 9verb
admit (to a wrongdoing)
"She confessed that she had taken the money"
- 10verb
confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
- 11verb
confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
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