shrive

vt.
1. hear (one) confess and forgive as a priest（像神父那样）听…忏悔。
△Com.2.2. 212 (208): “shrive you of athousand idle pranks.”i.e. hear you confess and for-give you for many foolish mischiefs. 听你忏悔你的一大堆恶作剧。
△Mer.1.2.142 (130):“I had rather he shouldshrive me than wive me.”我倒愿他做神父，听我的忏悔，而不愿他做我的丈夫。
2. hear the confession of,i.e.examine closely听取…的忏悔，（转义）盘问。
△1H.VI.1.2.119: “Doubtless heshrives this woman to her smock，”他无疑是在细细盘问这个女人，一直问到她的衣服里边去了。