Thesaurus:confess
English
Verb
Sense: to admit to the truth
Synonyms
- acknowledge
- admit
- assent [⇒ thesaurus]
- avow
- beknow
- come clean (idiomatic)
- concede
- confess
- fess
- fess up
- front up
- make a clean breast (idiomatic)
- own
- own up
- shrive
- sing [⇒ thesaurus]
- spill one's guts (idiomatic)
- spill the beans (idiomatic)
- step forward (idiomatic)
- talk [⇒ thesaurus]
- tell all
- unbosom (archaic)
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Further reading
- “529. disclosure” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “confess” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.