avowverb [ T ]
uk/əˈvaʊ/us/əˈvaʊ/formalto admit something or say something publicly:
[ + that ] He avowed that he regretted what he had done.
It is a society in which homosexuality is rarely avowed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Admitting & confessing
- acknowledge
- acknowledgment
- admit
- admittedly
- back down
- climb
- climbdown
- come clean idiom
- concessionary
- eat
- eat your words idiom
- hand
- I stand corrected idiom
- make a clean breast of it idiom
- own up
- say
- self-confessed
- swallow
- swallow your words idiom
- take sth back
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Announcing, informing & stating