v.坦自，承认,
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
confess (verb)transitive verb
1.
to tell or make known (as something wrong or damaging to oneself) - admit he confessed his guilt
2.
a) to acknowledge (sin) to God or to a priest
b) to receive the of (a penitent) - confession
3.
to declare faith in or adherence to - profess
4.
intransitive verb
to give evidence of
1.
a) to disclose one's faults , specifically to unburden one's sins or the state of one's conscience to God or to a priest
b) to hear a confession
2.
- admit own confess to a crime acknowledge
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
confess (verb)1.
to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid
SYNONYMS:
admit, cop (to), fess (up), own (up)RELATED WORDS:
blab, talk, tattle; babble, spillNEAR ANTONYMS:
clam up, hush, quiet (down), shut up2.
to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly
SYNONYMS:
acknowledge, agree, allow, concede, confess, fess (up), grant, own (up to)RELATED WORDS:
disburden, unburden, unload; affirm, avow, confirm, profess; accept, recognize, yield; announce, break, broadcast, communicate, declare, disclose, divulge, impart, proclaim, publish, reveal, spill, tell, unveil; betray, blab, expose, give away, inform, leak, rat, squeal, talk, tattle, tip (off), warn, wise (up); breathe, say, whisperNEAR ANTONYMS:
disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown; contradict, dispute, gainsay, negate, negative; rebut, refute, reject, repudiate; conceal, cover (up), hide, obscure, veil; kid (oneself)