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Definition of admit : 1. To allow ( one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.
2. To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
3. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.
4. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
5. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

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guard, adapt, consent, let, allow in, film, require, nurse, charter, deem, take aim, curb, confirm, own, aim, train, harbor, entertain, uncover, set aside, hire, obligate, postulate, keep back, use up, need, involve, demand, live with, tell, lodge, convey, fill, ask, fit, open up, tolerate, deal, keep, engage, guide, agree, appropriate, arrest, hold back, comply, make known, fess up, combine, confine, concede, differ, allow, conduct, call for, let on, shoot, divulge, tackle, recognize, avow, adopt, reveal, undertake, have got, pack, defy, exact, deny, apply, notice, get hold of, contract, leave, withdraw, yield, meet, sing, concur, communicate, take on, have, take hold, pick out, necessitate, subscribe, lease, choose, withstand, recognise, take into account, study, hide, include, drive, let in, select, reserve, halt, learn, read, throw, countenance, obtain, enter, oblige, remove, make, permit, subscribe to, grant, go along with, view as, contain, conciliate, harbour, realize, provide, reconcile, hold, take in, take over, assume, retain, allow for, consume, bear, book, look at, take away, narrate, suit, coincide, play, give up, hold in, defend, take up, bare, prevail, relate, bind, hold up, spill, know, credit, expose, own up, consider, accord, restrain, concord, adjudge, indicate, control, plead guilty, talk, take for, carry, disclose, accommodate, encounter, confess, lead, harmonize, bring, earmark, accede, occupy, acquiesce, knowledge, intromit, give, check, direct, strike, confide, rent, receipt, moderate, assent, go for

affirm (part of speech: verb)

contend, state, avouch, affirm, profess, acknowledge, corroborate, ratify, submit, declare, propound, sustain, maintain, endorse, promise, assure, express, pledge, warrant, support, adjure, claim, approve, proclaim, set down, validate, aver, assert, verify, testify, certify, pronounce, attest

receive (part of speech: verb)

eat, assimilate, pocket, inhale, ingest, accept, get, absorb, devour, engorge, swallow, gulp, gobble, access, take, inspire, receive, acquire

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