intransitive verb. To disclose (something damaging or inconvenient to oneself); admit. synonym: acknowledge.

intransitive verb. To acknowledge belief or faith in; profess.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To make known (one's sins) to God or to a priest.

intransitive verb. To hear the confession of (a penitent).

intransitive verb. To admit or acknowledge something damaging or inconvenient to oneself.

intransitive verb. To disclose one's sins to a priest.

To make avowal or admission of, as of a fault, a crime, a charge, a debt, or something that is against one's interest or reputation; own; acknowledge; avow.

Reflexively, to make an admission or an inculpatory statement concerning; acknowledge to be; specifically, acknowledge the sins or moral faults of, as in auricular confession to a priest: as, I confess myself in error or at fault.

Eccles., to receive the confession of; act as a confessor to.

To acknowledge as having a certain character or certain claims; recognize; own; avow; declare belief in.

To grant; admit; concede.

To reveal by circumstances; show by effect; disclose; prove; attest.

Synonyms Admit, Avow, etc. See acknowledge.

To make confession or avowal; disclose or admit a crime, fault, debt, etc.

Eccles., to make known one's sins or the state of one's conscience to a priest.

intransitive verb. To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.

intransitive verb. To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.

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. undefined

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.

verb. To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed

verb. To disclose or reveal

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

verb. admit (to a wrongdoing)

"One of my character traits, I must confess, is believing in extraordinary expectations ...."

acknowledge  come clean  own up  

confession  confessional  confessor  

acknowledge  admit  

Bess  Es  Etess  Fs  Hess  

absolve  accept  account for  accredit with  accrete to  

confessed  confesses  confessing