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призна́ть — meaning in English

priznat

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English meaning

  • acknowledge verb To accept or admit that something is true.
  • admit verb To allow someone or something to enter.
  • adopt verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
  • allow verb To give permission for something to happen.
  • avow verb To state something openly and confidently, admitting it is true.
  • concede verb To admit, often reluctantly, that something is true.
  • confess verb To admit that you have done something wrong, or that something is true.
  • recognize verb To identify someone or something as already known from a previous encounter.

Senses

призна́ть is used for these senses in English:

  • acknowledge (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
  • admit (transitive, or, intransitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny (+ to).
  • adopt To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
  • allow (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
  • avow (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
  • confess (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
  • homologate (transitive) To confirm, ratify or approve, especially officially or legally.
  • recognize (transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.

acknowledge — full definition

  1. verb To accept or admit that something is true.
  2. verb To recognize someone or something formally, or to respond confirming receipt of something.

admit — full definition

  1. verb To allow someone or something to enter.
  2. verb To acknowledge, often reluctantly, that something is true.
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