| verb | admit (to a wrongdoing) “She confessed that she had taken the money” |
| verb | be willing to concede “I grant you this much” |
| verb | give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another |
| verb | acknowledge defeat “The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose” |
| profession | noun | an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion |
| confession | noun | a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party |
| confessor | noun | someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves) |
| concessive | adjective | of or pertaining to concession |
| concession | noun | the act of conceding or yielding |
| conceding | noun | the act of conceding or yielding |
| yielding | noun | the act of conceding or yielding |
| cession | noun | the act of ceding |