Synonyms for own up
own up

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1. own upverb

   Synonyms:
   come clean

2. own upverb

   to acknowledge, confess, or admit guilt. Often used with to.

   Synonyms:
   come clean

Princeton's WordNet

1. make a clean breast of, own up, fess upverb

   admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

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

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1. • Confess

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1. Chris Cuomo:

   And Iguarantee you, people will find ways to defend them by attacking me, but they wont own up to the obvious. But thats politics.

2. President Obama:

   We have to own up to the fact that occasionally there are going to be problems here.

3. The GOP senator:

   The GOP senator needs to own up to, because sooner or later, we need somebody in the United States Senate that will stand up to Communist China.

4. Amy Poehler:

   What we said in our statement was true, which is, we were trying to own up to the things we did wrong or didn't know or know now, it's a tough time to survive.

5. George Santos:

   I didn't graduate from any institution of higher learning, i'm embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume. I own up to that … We do stupid things in life.