admit
- to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
- to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
- to permit; allow.
- to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
- to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.
- to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
- to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.
- to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.
- to permit the possibility of something; allow (usually followed by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation.
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grant, receive, permit, introduce, sign, concede, accept, enter, take, disclose, reveal, affirm, confirm, recognize, tell, indicate, allow, declare, approve, agreeExamples from the Web for admitted
Contemporary Examples of admitted
But the program is just six weeks long, the Pentagon admitted Monday.
Pentagon Insider on New Plan to Fight ISIS: ‘Of Course It’s Not Enough’Nancy A. Youssef
January 6, 2015
But this may be a distinction without much of a difference—especially since Scalise admitted speaking before EURO.
A 59-year-old retired subway train driver, who gave his name only as Artist, admitted that he had family members in the NYPD.
As I sign the forms to be admitted to have surgery the next day, I ask my husband the date.
Police then lied to Henry by telling him that if he admitted his guilt, he could go home.
Historical Examples of admitted
He made his way to the house of Squire Paine, and, after a brief pause, was admitted.
Brave and BoldHoratio Alger
She had left it impulsively, she admitted, scarce knowing what she did.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
"He did seem rather cut up about the stables," Austin admitted.
VivietteWilliam J. Locke
The constituencies; and into these constituencies had been admitted the Jews.
The Grand Old ManRichard B. Cook
But a sense in which God is "unknowable" to us has to be admitted.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
admit
- (may take a clause as object) to confess or acknowledge (a crime, mistake, etc)
- (may take a clause as object) to concede (the truth or validity of something)
- to allow to enter; let in
- (foll by to) to allow participation (in) or the right to be part (of)to admit to the profession
- (when intr, foll by of) to allow (of); leave room (for)
- (intr) to give accessthe door admits onto the lawn