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Confessed, placed before a noun, means the person has already said in public that they did the thing — usually something wrong or . A confessed thief is not merely a suspect; they have admitted the theft. News likes this shape: a confessed spy, a confessed killer. People also use it lightly about themselves: a confessed football addict has openly owned the habit, not a crime. It is the -ed form of confess, doing the work of an adjective. Though actually, in a courtroom you will more often hear the verb — he confessed — than the newspaper label a confessed criminal.
已坦承的、自供的
組成confess + -ed: the past form of confess, here used like an adjective before a noun.
同家族的字
- confessthe verb this form comes from
- confessionthe act or statement of confessing
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
confessedadj/kənˈfɛst/
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Which one admits or avows.
- I saw you thought me foolish, and I knew that mamma and papa's plans could not be altered to please my fancy, and that my confessed distaste to them would give pain to both: therefore, I concealed my dislike, […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。