own up

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to say that you are wrong
confessRawlinson finally confessed to the robbery.
own upCome on, own up - who's eaten the last sandwich?
fess upFess up - you wanted to go to the cinema instead, didn't you?
come cleanI decided to come clean about the broken vase.
concedeShe did eventually concede that the instructions were not very clear.
admitHe admitted that he had been wrong.
in the Christian religion, especially the Roman Catholic Church, to tell God or a priest what you have done wrong so that you can be forgiven: （基督教、尤指天主教中向上帝或神父）忏悔
to confess your sins忏悔你的罪过
I have to confess I'm a bit of a sucker for musicals.
I must confess that I got my sums wrong - the house extension is costing a lot more than I expected.我必须承认我算错了账——房子的扩建费用大大超出了我的预期。
The killer confessed that he often drugged his victims before he killed them.那名杀手供认在杀人之前他通常对受害者使用麻醉剂。
He was granted immunity from prosecution because he confessed the names of the other spies.他因供出了其他间谍的名字而免受起诉。
He confessed that he had sinful thoughts.他承认曾动过邪念。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Admitting & confessing
acknowledge something as something
acknowledgedly
acknowledgment
admission of guilt
admittedly
avowedly
breastbeating
clean
climb down
come cleanidiom
confess
hold/put your hands upidiom
retraction
self-admittedly
self-confessed
self-confessedly
self-confession
stand
swallow your wordsidiom
take something back

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Religious concepts: forgiveness in religion
Religious practices

Examples of confessed

confessed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This friend was grateful for the ticket, but confessed he was dead asleep for almost the entire programme.
The few farmers who owned a radio with charged batteries confessed that they didn't follow the debates, because ' they were too complicated for us'.
Revivalists, many of them women, talked : they confessed private sins vocally, cleansing themselves of sorcerous familial strife.
However, two of the six charged with non-spectral acts of witchcraft had also confessed.
In hesitating at the point of hanging those who had confessed, the court had no other direction to turn by which to complete its work.
But receivers were not very likely to admit anything when denial was clearly an effective defence strategy against the mere word of a confessed thief.
There is evidence that prison was also developing as a penance for those who had committed serious sins, confessed and been absolved.
From a moral point of view, it would be better if either or both confessed to their crimes.
It is, however, difficult to see why, if the explorers had indeed committed cannbalism, they would have confessed it to the men at the post.
Not one of these confessed, not one was charged with nonspectral acts of witchcraft, and not one was tried.
So much was this so, in fact, that some witnesses felt they had confessed to the crimes alleged against them.
It was the first time that anyone who had confessed was tried.
The majority confessed that they did not make the recordings because of lack of time.
This was also true when he or she confessed and received holy communion.
The local authority officers later confessed that they felt that the group were simply ' playing with ideas ' without any grasp of reality.
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