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confess

/kənˈfɛs/

US pronunciation

American sound/kənˈfɛs/

kənˈfɛs

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

kən - ˈfɛs -> confess

Myanmar meaning

(v) ဝန်ခံသည်။

Full entry

confess /kǝn'fes/ v

၁။ (က) ~ (to sth/doing sth) ; ~ (sth) (to sb) အပြစ်ကိုဝန်ခံသည်။ ဖြောင့်ချက်ပေးသည်။
The prisoner refused to confess (his crime). ❍ She finally confessed to having stolen the money. ❍ He confessed that he had not been telling the truth.
(ခ) ဖွင့်ပြောသည်။ ဝန်ခံသည်။ She confessed to (having) a dread of spiders. ❍ I was fairly bored, I must confess. ❍ He confessed himself (to be) totally ignorant of their plans. See also SELF-CONFESSED
၂။ (က) ~ (sth) (to sb) ဘရင်ဂျီခရစ်ယာန် ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးထံတွင် မိမိအပြစ်ကို ဝန်ခံသည်။ အပြစ်ဖြေသည်။ He confessed (to the priest) that he had sinned.
(ခ) ယင်းအပြစ်ဝန်ခံချက်ကို ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးကကြားနာသည်။
The priest confessed the criminal.
❏ confessedly /-ǝdli/ adv
ဖွင့်ဟဝန်ခံသည့် အလျောက်၊ အတိုင်း။

More examples

After three hours of interrogation, he confessed everything.
[confess to someone] : Eventually he confessed to the police.
[confess to (doing) something] : Simpson has confessed to taking the money.
[confess (that)] : He later confessed that he had been involved in the attack.
He confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing another woman.
I had to confess my ignorance when they asked me to operate the truck.
[confess (that)] : He confessed he did not understand financial matters at all.
[confess to someone that] : Years later Luke confessed to friends that he really fancied me.
[confess to doing something] : Nick confessed to being a secret opera fan.

Synonyms

admit, own up, plead guilty, come clean, acknowledge, make a clean breast, affirm, allow, assert, attest, aver, avow, blow, blurt out, chirp, clue in, come out, concede, confide, confirm, declare, disclose, divulge, dump on, dumper, evince, finger, fink, get off chest, get off one's chest, grant, humble oneself, lay bare, leak, let hair down, let on, level with, make clean breast of, make known, manifest, narrate, open one's heart, out with it, own, post, profess, prove, rat on, recognize, relate, reveal, shaker, sing, snitch, sound off, spill the beans, spit out, squeal, tell all, tip hand, unbosom, unburden, unload, vent, weasel

Antonyms

conceal, condemn, contradict, deny, disavow, disown, hide, keep, mask, refuse, reject, repress, repudiate, secrete, suppress, veto, withhold

Cross references

admit own up plead guilty come clean acknowledge make a clean breast affirm allow assert attest aver avow blow blurt out chirp clue in come out concede confide confirm declare disclose divulge dump on dumper evince finger fink

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