confessar
con.fes.sar

vt+vpr
1 to confess.
2 to declare, assert openly.
3 to reveal, disclose.
4 to acknowledge, admit, avow: confesso que fiquei muito surpreso / I must admit that I was very much surprised: ele se confessou o causador do erro / he avowed himself the perpetrator of the blunder: ele teve de confessá-lo / he had to admit it.
5 confessar-se to tell one’s sins to a priest (to obtain absolution).
6 to hear confessions (priest).
7 to recognize one’s faults.Expressõesconfessar tudo to confess all, gír come clean.
ele confessou tudo he made a clean breast of it.
ele vai confessar-se he goes to confession.