Crossword-Solution: CONFESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Confess | v. t. | To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt. |
| Confess | v. t. | To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in. |
| Confess | v. t. | To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment. |
| Confess | v. t. | To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. |
| Confess | v. t. | To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest. |
| Confess | v. t. | To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest. |
| Confess | v. i. | To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience. |
| Confess | v. i. | To acknowledge; to admit; to concede. |
We have 37 clues for the answer “CONFESS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Unburden the soul | 1 answer |
| Tell in a crime story? | 1 answer |
| Talk about sin, in a way | 1 answer |
| Stop stonewalling, maybe | 1 answer |
| Own up to one's sins | 1 answer |
| Own up to a crime | 1 answer |
| Cave to police pressure, in a way | 1 answer |
| Claim openly | 2 answers |
| MAKE a clean break of | 2 answers |
| Admit one's mistakes | 3 answers |
| "Admit it!" | 3 answers |
| Own (up) | 8 answers |
| CLEAN COME | 10 answers |
| Own | 11 answers |
| Admit to | 13 answers |
| Tell all | 14 answers |
| Avouch. | 15 answers |
| Let on | 17 answers |
| Unmask | 17 answers |
| COME clean | 20 answers |
| Spill the beans | 23 answers |
| lay bare | 25 answers |
| Debunk? | 26 answers |
| Allege | 32 answers |
| MAKE reply | 34 answers |
| avow | 36 answers |
| Concede | 39 answers |
| Relate | 43 answers |
| Divulge | 44 answers |
| Unburden | 47 answers |
| Acknowledge | 47 answers |
| Sing | 52 answers |
| ADMIT ___ | 53 answers |
| Yield | 63 answers |
| Share | 70 answers |
| Acknowledgement | 81 answers |
| Pass on | 81 answers |
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Sentences with CONFESS (5)
And he cried, “O Mudjekeewis, It was you who killed Wenonah, Took her young life and her beauty, Broke the Lily of the Prairie, Trampled it beneath your footsteps; You confess it! you confess it!” And the mighty Mudjekeewis Tossed upon the wind his tresses, Bowed his hoary head in anguish, With a silent nod assented.
Canst thou with impious obloquie condemne The just Decree of God, pronounc’t and sworn, That to his only Son by right endu’d With Regal Scepter, every Soule in Heav’n Shall bend the knee, and in that honour due Confess him rightful King? unjust thou saist Flatly unjust, to binde with Laws the free, And equal over equals to let Reigne, One over all with unsucceeded power.
And now, rather than have had this grievous wrong to confess, she would gladly have laid down on the forest leaves, and died there, at Arthur Dimmesdale’s feet.
Rather hastily, I may as well confess, for I feared my courage might leak away! At first she watched me in amazement.
But at last I could resist the impulse no longer, and, promising faithfully to return to them, and parting, as I will confess, from these four-day friends with tears, I went out again into the streets that had lately been so dark and strange and empty.
Quotes with CONFESS (3)
One day she marched around the side of the house and confronted me. "I've seen you out there every day for the past week, and everyone knows you stare at me all day in school, if you have something you want to say to me why don't you just say it to my face instead of sneaking around like a crook?" I considered my options. Either I could run away and never go back to school again, maybe even leave the country as a stowaway on a ship bound for Australia. Or I could risk everyth…
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1975–2018).