v. 25B6; verb
he confessed that he had done it : ADMIT, acknowledge, reveal, disclose, divulge, avow, declare, profess; own up, tell all.
they could not make him confess : OWN UP, plead guilty, accept the blame; tell the truth, tell all, make a clean breast of it; informal come clean, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, get something off one's chest, let on; Brit. informal cough.
I confess I don't know : ACKNOWLEDGE, admit, concede, grant, allow, own, declare, affirm.
deny.