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admit Definition

ad·mit (ad mit′, əd-)

transitive verb -·mit′·ted, -·mit′·ting

  1. to permit to enter or use; let in
  2. to entitle to enter this ticket admits two
  3. to allow; leave room for
  4. to have room for; hold the hall admits 2,500 people
  5. to concede or grant
  6. to acknowledge or confess
  7. to permit to practice certain functions he was admitted to the bar

Etymology: ME admitten < L admittere < ad-, to + mittere, to send: see mission

intransitive verb

  1. to give entrance (to a place)
  2. to allow or warrant: with of
  3. to confess or own (to)

admit Synonyms

admit

v.

  1. To grant entrance

    receive, give access to, allow entrance to; see receive 4.

  2. To confess

    acknowledge, confess, own, indicate, disclose, divulge, reveal, avow, declare, proclaim, communicate, make known, confide, open up, unbosom oneself, bare, uncover, expose, bring to light, tell, relate, narrate, go into details, make a clean breast of, break down and confess, plead guilty, tell all*, own up*, fess up*, come clean*, level with*, make no bones about*, let slip*, talk*, sing*, cough up*, spill the beans*, spill*, let on*, let one's hair down*, let it all hang out*, come out into the open*, come out of the closet*.

    Antonyms hide*, cover up, obscure. *

  3. To acknowledge

    concede, allow, acknowledge, grant, accept, agree, confess, realize, indicate, concur, avow, consent, accede, acquiesce, yield, tolerate, recognize, declare, profess, adopt, assent, accord, confirm, affirm, approve, subscribe to, go along with, coincide, assume, make way for, credit, give credence to, fall in with.

    Antonyms deny*, differ*, disagree. *

  4. To permit

    let, allow, grant; see allow 1.

admit is applied to assent that has been elicited by persuasion and implies a conceding of a fact or point of view I'll admit you're right; acknowledge implies the reluctant disclosure of something one might have kept secret he acknowledged the child as his; own denotes an informal acknowledgment of something in connection with oneself to own to a liking for turnips; avow implies an open, emphatic declaration, often as an act of affirmation; confess is applied to a formal acknowledgment of a sin, crime, etc., but in a weakened sense is used in making simple declarations, esp. of something about oneself felt to be shameful, awkward, or damaging I confess I've never understood it See also syn. study at receive.

admit Usage Examples

Object

  • defeat: Arthur Green, chairman of the protection group, accuses the authority of being too quick to admit defeat.
  • guilt: Both admitted guilt fleeting popularity of much bigger position.
  • liability: She is now hoping they will admit full liability for what has happened to her.
  • breach: He has never received any apology and they only admitted breach of duty a few days before trial.
  • offense: You can admit the offense ( plead ' guilty ' ).
  • patient: Further analyzes are being conducted to determine the cost effectiveness of CT scanning in patients not admitted to hospital.

Preposition: as

  • solicitor: She completed her legal training at Bishop + Sewell and was admitted as a solicitor in October 2004.
  • emergency: Whilst waiting for her OGD, she was admitted as an emergency under the care of another medical firm.

Preposition: into

hospital: I truly was thinking I was going to have to be admitted into a hospital ( although I never told anyone that ).

Adjective complement

free: His apprentice John Harris was admitted free during his mayoral year.

Modifying Another Word

  • freely: But when asked, I will freely admit that I know very little about life.
  • openly: Well, yes, and they openly admit it.
  • readily: With some of the crowd readily admitting to this being their third night of ¡ Forward, Russia!
  • frankly: Communists frankly admit that climate change cannot be halted.
  • grudgingly: Which, I must grudgingly admit, sounds like much more fun than your average wedding.
  • publicly: And finally they had to admit publicly that the strange thing about me was the lack of any despair.

Used with why or when

  • that: It's been three weeks since Chris admitted he loves me, and I must admit that took me by surprise.
  • when: It is part of becoming a professional to admit when you cannot perform a certain role.

Infinitive complement

bail: Cadogan, alias Beho, was also taken up, and admitted to bail by Just.

Preposition: in

April: Million shares and admitted in april it easy to.