What is "confess" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does confess mean in English? Meaning of confess definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "confess" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "confess": confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

Verb

  • Meaning: confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
  • Synonyms: confess fink squeal
  • Hypernyms: acknowledge admit
  • Meaning of "confess": admit (to a wrongdoing)

    Verb

  • Meaning: admit (to a wrongdoing)
  • Example: She confessed that she had taken the money
  • Synonyms: concede confess profess
  • Hyponyms: fess up make a clean breast of own up
  • Hypernyms: acknowledge admit
  • Meaning of "confess": confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith

    Verb

  • Meaning: confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
  • Synonyms: confess
  • Hypernyms: acknowledge admit
  • Synonyms:

    disclose, reveal, acknowledge, confide, prove, divulge, concede, assert, relate, recognize, profess, declare, blow, attest, avow, snitch, affirm, leak, grant, vent, evince, manifest, chirp, fink, own, finger, allow, unload, aver, sing, post, narrate, squeal, come clean, come out, let on, spill the beans, weasel, blurt out, clue in, dump on, humble oneself, level with, make clean breast of, own up, rat on, sound off, spit out, tip hand, open one's heart,

    Antonyms:

    conceal, hide, suppress, refuse, repudiate, contradict, disavow, reject, deny, condemn, veto, withhold, disown, mask, secrete, keep,

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    confess in English: confess
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