verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a patient is admitted (to hospital)
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This examination should be done when the patient is admitted to hospital.
accept/admit liability
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The company accepts no liability for any loss, inconvenience, or delay caused by a cancellation of train services.
accept/admit the truth
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Our pride kept us from admitting the truth.
admit an offence
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He had admitted sex offences against children.
admit defeat
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If I left my job, I would be admitting defeat.
admit failure
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He was too proud to admit failure.
admit your mistake
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It is better to admit your mistake and apologize.
be admitted to hospital British English , be admitted to the hospital American English
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He was admitted to hospital suffering from chest pain.
deny/admit a charge
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All three men denied the charge of manslaughter.
frankly admitted
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Nicholas frankly admitted that the report was a pack of lies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
freely
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She freely admitted although only to herself that this was because Maxim would be there.
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This he freely admitted , although, even so, neither he nor Mama would ever reveal what his real name was.
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She freely admitted that when she was shoplifting she was, in a way, hoping to go to prison.
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Vaught freely admitted that he is a follower.
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But Moore freely admits he has no stomach for the stunts.
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Manager Graham freely admits he could never have imagined this threesome getting just one goal between them from six games.
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I freely admit that things have changed since, but that was part of the argument.
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Now he freely admits to being gay and to having had a stable, loving relationship with another man.
never
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But that he would deliberately attempt to break that link was something that he would never admit , even to himself.
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He would never admit to himself that this was because Jeopardy seemed beyond him.
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Symington and our Legislature have never admitted that Arizona school financing is unfair.
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Girls in her village don't eat in front of strangers, and never admit to being hungry.
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She never admitted that Edwin was an alcoholic, never talked about the pain and suffering his drinking had caused the family.
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Never mind he can't string two sentences together - he'd never admit that.
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Thus associative adjectives should never admit an intensifying adverb.
openly
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The report openly admits that this is the most ambitious assessment scheme ever attempted in the world.
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Later in the war, they openly admitted that perimeters were used as bait.
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Gates openly admits his biases, or opinions.
to
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After all, Levi admits to more than a passing interest in things financial, shall we say.
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It's not a view I can admit to officially.
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All I could admit to was boredom, and the belief that school was more fun.
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Each cohort of students will be admitted to only one institution and will normally remain registered with that institution until graduation.
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Yet there is another failure which we less readily admit to .
■ NOUN
charge
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All three had admitted burglary and related charges .
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Often, in panic, the accused will admit to the lesser charge without a trial.
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She admitted four charges of making a false representation to obtain benefit and asked for 18 others to be taken into consideration.
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Mr Honour consented to the fine without admitting or denying the charges .
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He also admitted other charges of dishonestly handling a stolen ring and theft of a car.
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Gingrich admitted to charges , brought by an investigative subcommittee of the ethics committee, that he brought discredit to the House.
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The six have admitted the charges , committed at a rented factory in Burn Road, Hartlepool.
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In recent weeks, three others in the scam admitted to charges of money laundering and wire fraud.
evidence
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We take the view that the judge was right to admit the evidence .
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It must be remembered, however, that the Order only permits the court to admit hearsay evidence .
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They admitted manslaughter and gave evidence against Allen.
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Ridgeway strongly resisted freeing the men, though he admitted that the evidence placed before the court had not demonstrated their guilt.
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It seemed so incredible that his mind failed to admit the evidence of his ears and eyes.
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The decision whether to admit or exclude evidence lay with the court of trial.
hospital
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She was admitted to hospital on 21 January because of a productive cough and mild dyspnoea which had appeared four days earlier.
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One weekend in mid-July seven new patients were admitted , bringing the hospital total to twenty-nine.
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She was admitted to hospital and the baby was induced because the doctors feared both Esther and the baby were in danger.
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Parker, 87, had been admitted to Valley Hospital on Monday.
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She was admitted to a London hospital on 10 October 1992 with ruptured membranes and in spontaneous labour.
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Since 1990, Bradley said two children besides Jessica have been admitted to the hospital with severe streptococcal toxic shock.
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It is also possible for patients to be admitted directly to general hospitals and never to psychiatric hospital.
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His wife had been admitted to hospital for observation, and then evacuated to a hospital in Shropshire when war was declared.
mistake
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The company has since admitted this was a mistake .
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There appeared to be real individual differences in the managers willingness to admit mistakes and ask for help.
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Mr Irving admitted making mistakes , but said these were made innocently.
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Rcagan had no choice but to withdraw the Marines, and in effect admit a terrible mistake .
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I admit that was a mistake .
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My motto: Be up front and admit mistakes and bad decisions.
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He makes little humorous concessive noises in his throat, to admit his mistake .
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Later, he swore out an affidavit admitting his own mistake and praising the accuracy of the timekeeper.
patient
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Physicians are more likely to admit old patients than young patients for any given severity of illness.
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Eventually he was admitted as a voluntary patient to Napsbury Hospital, where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic.
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All four physicians admit elderly patients into the district hospital's general medical beds.
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Another possible contributory factor is the increasing difficulty in admitting acutely ill patients .
■ VERB
force
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Freire has been forced to admit that his practice can only really work if other conditions are also present.
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As he reads over the results, he is forced to admit that everything seems accurate.
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The surgeon was forced to admit that this operation would leave Dawn paralysed and wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life.
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I was forced to admit we were related and that Alistair was staying with us.
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Now he was forced to admit he had been wrong.
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I was forced to admit that put that way, it did sound rather absurd.
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And, I was forced to admit , both times it was the correct policy for them.
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The college, forced to admit women by the U.S.
refuse
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Linkworth refused to admit his guilt.
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She refuses to admit that she is the daughter for fear of disgracing her parents.
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The Chief Inspector refused to apologise or admit any responsibility for the deaths.
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First, you refused to admit that there was a menace at all!
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But the Palace has always refused to admit it until yesterday.
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He, however, refused to admit his personal responsibility.
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Hating himself for that snobbery, he drove the boy harder, refusing to admit to himself that he was failing.
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Union meetings were often held in a restaurant that frequently refused to admit blacks, the suit said.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I don't mind admitting/telling you/saying etc
I have to say/admit/confess
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I have to say I don't know anything about computers.
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At this point I have to say he was, from an early age, exceedingly theatrical.
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He did not, I have to say, look at all pleased.
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He looked, I have to say, absolutely great.
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I am rather shaken, I have to confess.
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I shall say yes, she was thinking. I have to say yes.
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If you find that what I have to say about the specialisation is difficult, don't worry.
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Looking through Woodworker I have to say that many of the chairs are anything but comfortable!
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None of us slept very easily, I have to say.
I must admit/say/confess
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At this point I must say that I haven't yet found a carp that didn't eat Tropicanas.
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But I must say I was deeply disappointed.
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But I must say she's not always as fractious as she appears now.
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He went very red in the face. I must say he never did it again.
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Lovely site for it, I must say.
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Some one must have brought it here for a purpose, but I must admit it looks abandoned.
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They were very polite, I must confess.....
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This procedure is, I must admit, a limited one, and it is vulnerable to criticism.
freely admit/acknowledge sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Well, I suppose there is some truth in what you say," she admitted.
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Admit it! You lied to me!
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Blake finally admitted he had stolen the money.
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Children under 17 will not be admitted.
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He admits to stealing the car.
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In the end he had to admit that I was right.
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In the past, some countries refused to admit travelers who had South African visas.
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Maggie asked the nurses to find a doctor who would admit Roy, but they didn't call anyone.
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Rachel admitted that she had made a mistake.
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Richard Maldonado admitted accepting bribes.
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The hospital refused to admit liability for the deaths of the two young children.
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They refused to admit Paul to the performance because of what he was wearing.
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You may not like her, but you have to admit that she's good at her job.
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You were wrong, weren't you? Come on, admit it!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the death of Asbury, the Methodists in 1816 adopted a report that admitted they were powerless to abolish the evil.
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Characteristic is a reluctance to admit the quantity consumed, drinking secretly alone, and taking gradually increasing amounts.
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I will accept your tequila, but not until after you have admitted your wrongs.
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I would have admitted to murder to keep her out of it.
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There I was admitted by the butler, of all people.
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Tickets are $ 10, available at the door, with children under age 12 not admitted.