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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error;
- Example: "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting"
[syn: make a clean breast of, own up, fess up]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

make a clean breast of
    v 1: admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; "the writer of
         the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his
         handwriting" [syn: make a clean breast of, own up,
         fess up]