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Confess
- verb - admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken the money"
- confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
- confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
- own up
Confide
- verb - confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- reveal in private; tell confidentially
Confine
- verb - close in; darkness enclosed him"
- deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- prevent from leaving or from being removed
- restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
- to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
Confirm
- verb - administer the rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
- make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
- strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
- support a person for a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"
Confits
- noun - a piece of meat (especially a duck) cooked slowly in its own fat
Conflab
- unknown - informal discussion
Conflux
- noun - a flowing together
Conform
- verb - adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
- be similar, be in line with
Confuse
- verb - assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
- cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
- mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
Confute
- verb - prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"