confessing

Definitions

Admitting or acknowledging something, typically something that one feels guilty or embarrassed about.

Formally declaring one's sins to a priest or God.

Revealing or disclosing something that was previously kept secret.

Examples

He felt a sense of relief after finally confessing his secret to his best friend.

The suspect was caught on camera confessing to the crime during the police interrogation.

She spent the entire afternoon confessing her deepest fears to her therapist.

Synonyms

admitting disclosing revealing acknowledging divulging owning conceding

Antonyms

concealing hiding denying withholding suppressing covering masking