admit
verb
[ ədˈmɪt ]
• confess to be true or to be the case.
• "the Home Office finally admitted that several prisoners had been injured"
Similar:
acknowledge,
confess,
reveal,
make known,
disclose,
divulge,
make public,
avow,
declare,
profess,
own up to,
make a clean breast of,
bring into the open,
bring to light,
give away,
blurt out,
leak,
concede,
accept,
accede,
grant,
agree,
allow,
own,
concur,
assent,
recognize,
realize,
be aware of,
be conscious of,
appreciate,
get something off one's chest,
spill the beans about,
tell all about,
blow the lid off,
squeal about,
blow the gaff on,
discover,
• allow (someone) to enter a place.
• "old-age pensioners are admitted free to the museum"
Similar:
let in,
allow entry,
permit entry,
grant entrance to,
give right of entry to,
give access to,
give admission to,
accept,
take in,
usher in,
show in,
receive,
welcome,
take on,
enrol,
enlist,
register,
sign up,
• accept as valid.
• "the courts can refuse to admit police evidence which has been illegally obtained"
• allow the possibility of.
• "the need to inform him was too urgent to admit of further delay"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin admittere, from ad- ‘to’ + mittere ‘send’.
