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单词 fess
释义
fessfess /fes/ verb Verb Table
VERB TABLE
fess
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyfess
he, she, itfesses
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyfessed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave fessed
he, she, ithas fessed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad fessed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill fess
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have fessed
Continuous Form
PresentIam fessing
he, she, itis fessing
you, we, theyare fessing
PastI, he, she, itwas fessing
you, we, theywere fessing
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been fessing
he, she, ithas been fessing
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been fessing
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be fessing
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been fessing
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Just about any lawyer would advise bosses to fess up about a gun-toting supervisor.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto admit that you have done something wrong or illegal
to say that you have done something wrong or illegal, especially when someone asks or persuades you to do this: admit (that): · Rachel admitted that she had made a mistake.· Blake finally admitted he had stolen the money.admit (to) doing something: · Richard Maldonado admitted accepting bribes.· He admits to stealing the car.admit it spoken: · Admit it! You lied to me!admit responsibility/liability/negligence (=admit publicly that something is legally your fault): · The hospital refused to admit liability for the deaths of the two young children.
to tell the police or someone in a position of authority that you have done something very bad, especially after they have persuaded you to do this: · After two days of questioning, he finally confessed.confess (that): · She confessed that she had killed her husband.confess to a crime/robbery/murder etc: · McCarthy confessed to the crime shortly after his arrest.confess to doing something: · Edwards eventually confessed to being a spy.
to admit that you have done something wrong, especially something that is not serious. Own up is more informal than admit or confess: · Unless the guilty person owns up, the whole class will be punished.own up to (doing) something: · No one owned up to breaking the window.· I made a few mistakes, but I owned up to them.
informal to finally tell the truth or admit that you have done something wrong: · The bank eventually came clean and admitted they had made a mistake.come clean about: · It's time the government came clean about its plans to raise income tax.
especially American, informal to admit that you have done something wrong, but not something that is very serious: · Come on, fess up - you must have been the one who told her because no-one else knew!· If none of you guys fesses up, you're all grounded for a week.
fess up American English informal to admit that you have done something wrong, although it is not very serious SYN  own up:  Come on, fess up! Who ate that last cookie?
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