confessed
past simple and past participle ofconfess
| 单词 | confessed |
| 释义 | confessed past simple and past participle ofconfess confess verb[IorT] uk/kənˈfes/us/kənˈfes/B2 toadmitthat you have done somethingwrongor something that youfeelguiltyorbadabout: [+ that]She confessedtoherhusbandthatshe hadsoldherweddingring. He confessedtosleeping/havingsleptthrough most of themovie. He has confessedtothemurder. [+ (that)]Ihave toconfess(that)when I firstmetReece I didn'tthinkhe was verybright. Synonyms admit(ACCEPT) avowformal own up It was all veryconfusing, Imustconfess. to say that you are wrong
in theChristianreligion,especiallytheRomanCatholicChurch, totellGodor apriestwhat you have donewrongso that you can beforgiven: to confessyoursins
Admitting & confessing
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Religious concepts: forgiveness in religion Religious practices Examplesofconfessedconfessed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. This friend was grateful for the ticket, butconfessedhe was dead asleep for almost the entire programme. From theCambridge English Corpus The few farmers who owned a radio with charged batteriesconfessedthat they didn't follow the debates, because ' they were too complicated for us'. From theCambridge English Corpus Revivalists, many of them women, talked : theyconfessedprivate sins vocally, cleansing themselves of sorcerous familial strife. From theCambridge English Corpus However, two of the six charged with non-spectral acts of witchcraft had alsoconfessed. From theCambridge English Corpus In hesitating at the point of hanging those who hadconfessed, the court had no other direction to turn by which to complete its work. From theCambridge English Corpus But receivers were not very likely to admit anything when denial was clearly an effective defence strategy against the mere word of aconfessedthief. From theCambridge English Corpus There is evidence that prison was also developing as a penance for those who had committed serious sins,confessedand been absolved. From theCambridge English Corpus From a moral point of view, it would be better if either or bothconfessedto their crimes. From theCambridge English Corpus It is, however, difficult to see why, if the explorers had indeed committed cannbalism, they would haveconfessedit to the men at the post. From theCambridge English Corpus Not one of theseconfessed, not one was charged with nonspectral acts of witchcraft, and not one was tried. From theCambridge English Corpus So much was this so, in fact, that some witnesses felt they hadconfessedto the crimes alleged against them. From theCambridge English Corpus It was the first time that anyone who hadconfessedwas tried. From theCambridge English Corpus The majorityconfessedthat they did not make the recordings because of lack of time. From theCambridge English Corpus This was also true when he or sheconfessedand received holy communion. From theCambridge English Corpus The local authority officers laterconfessedthat they felt that the group were simply ' playing with ideas ' without any grasp of reality. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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