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admit
[ ad-mit ]
verb (used with object)
- to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to:
to admit a student to college.
Synonyms:
- to give right or means of entrance to:
This ticket admits two people.
- to register (a person) as an inpatient at a hospital:
After seeing the test results, the emergency room doctor admitted her and put her on intravenous fluids.
- 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.
Synonyms: ,
- to grant in argument; concede:
The fact is admitted.
- to have capacity for:
This passage admits two abreast.
verb (used without object)
- 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.
admit
/ əˈɪ /
verb
- 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
- whenintr, foll by of to allow (of); leave room (for)
- intr to give access
the door admits onto the lawn
Other Word Forms
- ··ٲ· ··پ· adjective
- ··ٱ noun
- ·· verb (used with object) preadmitted preadmitting
- ·· verb readmitted readmitting
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of admit1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The former deputy head of China's statistics bureau, He Keng, admitted two years ago that the most "extreme estimate" is that there are now enough vacant homes for 3 billion people.
He also admits he doesn't talk about those issues on the campaign trail, though.
"And yes, success for me too," she admits, with a smile, when prodded.
Mr Mears has admitted manslaughter, but denies murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, and is on trial at Caernarfon Crown Court.
Abbas - who has spent almost a third of his life in jail - has already admitted to his role in the heist, and even wrote a memoir entitled I Held Up Kim Kardashian.
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