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Verb (admits, admitting, admitted)

1. Confess to be true or to be the case.

She had blatantly accused me but I have to admit that it was true.

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2. Confess to (a crime or fault, or one's responsibility for it)

the paramilitaries admitted to the illegal possession of arms

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3. Acknowledge (a failure or fault)

So rather than admit defeat, I've changed goals.

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4. (usually admit to) Allow (someone) to enter a place.

The placid grey door whisked open as he approached, admitting him to his dark cabin.

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5. Receive (a patient) into a hospital for treatment.

In November 1997, he was admitted to a hospital for treatment of a urinary tract infection.

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6. Allow (a person, country, etc.) to join an organization.

In 1972 he had Ivory Coast vote against admitting China to the United Nations.

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7. Allow (someone) to share in a privilege.

The 1792 Act removed the legal bar to Catholics holding corporate office, but inasmuch as corporations continued to decline to admit them to the freedom, this was a nugatory achievement.

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8. Accept as valid.

the courts can refuse to admit police evidence which has been illegally obtained

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9. (admit of) Allow the possibility of.

But mainstream Islam admits of succession of saints.

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Origin

1. Late Middle English from Latin admittere, from ad- ‘to’ + mittere ‘send’.

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