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own up

DEFINITIONS OF: own up

1

v admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

“the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting”
Synonyms:
fess up, make a clean breast of
Type of:
concede, confess, profess
admit (to a wrongdoing)
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