confess
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
confess/kənˈfes/
▶verb
- 1 (often confess to/that) admit to a crime or wrongdoing.
■ acknowledge reluctantly: I must confess that I was surprised.
- 2 declare one's sins formally to a priest.
■ (of a priest) hear the confession of.
– origin ME: from OFr. confesser, from L. confess-, confiteri ‘acknowledge’.
'confess' also found in these Oxford entries:
acknowledge
- admit
- avow
- clean
- cough
- fess
- homologate
- masculine rhyme
- prisoner's dilemma
- profess
