confess

Definition

  • verb: to admit that you did something wrong or illegal
  • verb: to tell or make known (as something wrong or damaging to oneself)
  • often + 'to'
  • synonyms: admit, prove, concede

Examples

  • She 'confessed to' a love of trashy romance novels. [=she admitted that she loves trashy romance novels]

  • I must 'confess' [=I am a little embarrassed to say] that I know nothing about computers.

  • She 'confessed to' having lied to me in the past. [=she told me that she lied to me]

Movie quotes

  • (..) of our own body. - Sir. - Yes? Has it been proven scientifically? Oh, for the moment, it's just hypothesis, I confess but if you think about it, it's troubling to realize that the Greeks, the Egyptians and the Indians had notion of "cells" centuries before the invention of the microscope (..)
    2014 Lucy