own up

1. 1.

   admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

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

   Synonymsmake a clean breast offess up

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Questions about own up

What does own up mean?

own up means "admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error".

What is another word for own up?

Close synonyms include make a clean breast of, fess up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.