Local English word record

own up

verb · 1 sense

admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

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Examples

  • the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting

Word relationships

Synonyms

make a clean breast of, fess up

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This page uses the locally materialized K5English vocabulary cohort. WordNet, where present, is enrichment only and does not determine K-5 admission.

Princeton WordNet 3.0