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confessingverbpresent participle of confess to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or validthe thief confessed to dozens of robberies admitting, copping (to)(slang), fessing (up), owning (up) blabbing, talking, tattlingbabbling, spilling clamming up, hushing, quieting (down), shutting up to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantlypolitical prisoners, under threat of torture, forced to confess their guilt acknowledging, admitting, agreeing, allowing, conceding, fessing (up), granting, owning (up to) disburdening, unburdening, unloadingaffirming, avowing, confirming, professingaccepting, recognizing, yieldingannouncing, breaking, broadcasting, communicating, declaring, disclosing, divulging, imparting, proclaiming, publishing, revealing, spilling, telling, unveilingbetraying, blabbing, exposing, giving away, informing, leaking, ratting, squealing, talking, tattling, tipping (off), warning, wising (up)breathing, saying, whispering coming clean (about) denying disallowing, disavowing, disclaiming, disowningcontradicting, disputing, gainsaying, negating, negativingrebutting, refuting, rejecting, repudiatingconcealing, covering (up), hiding, obscuring, veilingkidding (oneself) |