| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offer recommendation |
| Synonyms: | admonish, advocate, caution, charge, commend, counsel, direct, dissuade, encourage, enjoin, exhort, forewarn, give a pointer, give a tip, guide, instruct, kibitz, level with, move, opine, point out, preach, prepare, prescribe, prompt, put bug in ear, put in two cents, recommend, steer, suggest, tout, update, urge, warn |
| Notes: | advise (verb) means 'to offer advice to or counsel'; advice (noun) is an opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem |
| Antonyms: | betray, deceive, delude, fool, lie, pretend, trick |
| Main Entry: | confess |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | admit, confirm |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, affirm, allow, assert, attest, aver, avow, blow, blurt out, chirp, clue in, come clean, come out, concede, confide, declare, disclose, divulge, dump on, evince, finger*, fink, grant, humble oneself, leak*, let on, level with, make clean breast of, manifest, narrate, open one's heart, own, own up, post, profess, prove, rat on, recognize, relate, reveal, sing*, snitch, sound off, spill the beans, spit out, squeal, tip hand, unload, vent, weasel |
| Antonyms: | conceal, deny, disavow, disown, hide, mask, repudiate, secrete |
| Main Entry: | brimming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overflowing |
| Synonyms: | awash, brimful, chock-full, crammed, crowded, filled, flush, full, jammed, level with, loaded, overfull, packed, running over, stuffed, topfull |
| Antonyms: | empty, unfilled |