Usually means: Admits truth under questioning voluntarily.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. confesses: Merriam-Webster
  2. confesses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. confesses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Confesses, confesses: Wordnik
  5. confesses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. confesses: Wiktionary
  7. confesses: Dictionary.com
  8. confesses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. confesses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confesses: Legal dictionary

(Note: See confess as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (confess)

verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
verb:  (transitive) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
verb:  (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
verb:  (transitive, religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
verb:  (transitive) To disclose or reveal.
verb:  (chiefly Japanese media) To profess one's love.
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