CONFESSED Synonyms

• recognized or made known or admitted

• generally accepted

• thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1978

• openly declared as such

• made known or openly avowed

• declared as fact; explicitly stated

• made known (especially something secret or concealed)

• professing to be qualified

• claimed with intent to deceive

• openly declared as such

• declared as fact; explicitly stated

• declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of

• allow to enter; grant entry to

• allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of

• admit into a group or community

• afford possibility

• give access or entrance to

• have room for; hold without crowding

• serve as a means of entrance

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• make manifest

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• disclose directly or through prophets

• admit (to a wrongdoing)

• be willing to concede

• give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

• acknowledge defeat

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• take the place of work of someone on strike

• confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

• practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about

• confess one's faith in, or allegiance to

• admit (to a wrongdoing)

• state freely

• receive into a religious order or congregation

• take vows, as in religious order

• state insincerely

• a high-pitched howl

• utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs

• confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure