"own up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-own up.ogg [Australia] Forms: owns up [present, singular, third-person], owning up [participle, present], owned up [participle, past], owned up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} own up (third-person singular simple present owns up, present participle owning up, simple past and past participle owned up)
  1. (transitive with to) To acknowledge, confess, or admit guilt or responsibility. Synonyms: fess up, come clean Translations (to confess): tunnustaa (Finnish), myöntää (Finnish), confesser (French), admettre (French), passer aux aveux (French), admitir (Galician), aceptar (Galician), recoñecer (Galician), confesar (Galician), asumir (Galician), παραδέχομαι (paradéchomai) (Greek), 承認犯錯 (Mandarin), 承认犯错 (Mandarin), 承认犯错 (chéngrèn fàncuò) (Mandarin), 認罪 (Mandarin), 认罪 (rènzuì) (Mandarin), wkładać między bajki [imperfective] (Polish), włożyć między bajki [perfective] (Polish), confessar (Portuguese), assumir (Portuguese), confessar que (Portuguese), admitir (Portuguese), mărturisi (Romanian), признавать (priznavatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), принимать (prinimatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), confesar (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to confess",
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      "sense": "to confess",
      "word": "承认犯错"
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      "sense": "to confess",
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      "sense": "to confess",
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      "sense": "to confess",
      "word": "assumir"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to confess",
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to confess",
      "word": "admitir"
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      "sense": "to confess",
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      "sense": "to confess",
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      "sense": "to confess",
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      "sense": "to confess",
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