confess
verb
[ kənˈfɛs ]
• admit that one has committed a crime or done something wrong.
• "he confessed that he had attacked the old man"
Similar:
admit,
acknowledge,
reveal,
make known,
disclose,
divulge,
make public,
avow,
declare,
blurt out,
profess,
own up to,
tell all about,
bring into the open,
bring to light,
blow the lid off,
discover,
own up,
admit guilt,
plead guilty,
accept blame/responsibility,
be completely honest,
tell the truth,
tell all,
make a clean breast of it,
unbosom oneself,
come clean,
fess up,
spill the beans,
let the cat out of the bag,
get something off one's chest,
let on,
cough,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus, past participle of confiteri ‘acknowledge’, from con- (expressing intensive force) + fateri ‘declare, avow’.
