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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confess, acknowledge |
| Synonyms: | accept, accord, acquiesce, adopt, affirm, agree, allow, approve, avow, bare, bring to light, communicate, concede, concur, confide, confirm, consent, cop a plea, credit, declare, disclose, divulge, enumerate, expose, go into details, grant, indicate, let, let on, make known, narrate, number, open up, own, own up, permit, proclaim, profess, recite, recognize, relate, reveal, spill*, subscribe to, talk, tell, tolerate, uncover, unveil, yield |
| Notes: | with admit, the acknowledgment of something being true applies to one's own sphere of conduct, whereas with concede the acknowledgment applies to another's; admit implies reluctance to disclose, grant, or concede and refers usually to facts rather than their implications |
| Antonyms: | confute, deny, dispute, dissent, gainsay, refuse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | come clean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell the truth |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge information, admit, confess, confess all, explain, implicate oneself, incriminate oneself, make clean breast, own up, reveal, spill |
| Antonyms: | hide, hold, secret |
| Main Entry: | come out with |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disclose information |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, bring out, chime in, come clean, declare, deliver, divulge, lay open, own, own up, say, state, tell, throw out, utter |
| Antonyms: | hide, secret |
| Main Entry: | concede |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | acknowledge, give in |
| Synonyms: | accept, accord, admit, allow, avow, award, bury the hatchet, capitulate, cave in, cede, confess, cry uncle, ditto*, fess up, fold, give up, go along with, go with the flow, grant, hand over, knuckle under, let on, own, own up, play ball with, quit, relinquish, say uncle, surrender, throw in the towel, waive, yes one, yield |
| Notes: | with admit, the acknowledgment of something being true applies to one's own sphere of conduct, whereas with concede the acknowledgment applies to another's; admit implies reluctance to disclose, grant, or concede and refers usually to facts rather than their implications |
| Antonyms: | contradict, disacknowledge, disagree, dispute, dissent, fight, refuse, reject, repudiate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | divulge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make known; confess |
| Synonyms: | admit, betray, blab, blow the whistle, broadcast, communicate, cough up, declare, disclose, discover, exhibit, expose, fess up, give away, go public, gossip, impart, leak, let hair down, let slip, mouth, open up, own up, proclaim, promulgate, publish, reveal, spill, spill the beans, spring, tattle, tell, tip off, uncover |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, keep, secrete |
| Main Entry: | grant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | authorize, allow |
| Synonyms: | accede, accept, accord, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, agree to, allocate, allot, assign, assume, avow, award, bestow, bless, cede, come across, come around, come through, concede, confer, consent to, convey, donate, drop, gift with, give, give in, give out, give the nod, give thumbs-up, go along with, impart, invest, own, own up, permit, present, profess, relinquish, shake on, sign off on, sign on, stake, suppose, surrender, transfer, transmit, vouchsafe, yield |
| Antonyms: | condemn, deny, refuse, veto |
| Main Entry: | let on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | acknowledge, admit |
| Synonyms: | allow, avow, betray, concede, confess, disclose, divulge, give away, grant, hint, imply, indicate, let out, make known, mouth*, own, own up, reveal, say, spill*, suggest, tell, uncover, unveil |
| Antonyms: | deny, disacknowledge |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | own |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | acknowledge, admit |
| Synonyms: | allow, assent to, avow, come clean, concede, confess, declare, disclose, grant, let on, make clean breast of, own up, recognize, tell the truth |
| Antonyms: | deny, disavow, reject |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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