- Admit guilt - To make an apology or defense. - To make an apology or excuse; to make acknowledgment
of some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of
amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering
my letter. - To defend.
- Admit guilt - Admit one is or was responsible for the action - To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining
to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a
debt. - To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in. - To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as
after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment. - To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a
priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the
reflexive pronoun. - To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a
priest.