ADMIT

v. 1 let in, allow to enter, take or allow in; accept, receive I opened the window to admit some air The harbour is too small to admit even one more ship. 2 allow, permit, grant, brook, tolerate The governor will admit no delay in the execution of the sentence, and the prisoner will be hanged at dawn 3 accept, concede, acquiesce, allow, grant, accept, recognize, take cognizance of Descartes' principle admitted nothing but what his own consciousness obliged him to admit 4 confess, own, concede, divulge, reveal, acknowledge, declare She readily admitted to having incited the riot