make a clean breast of (v)
own up (v)
fess up (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 32
def admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
examples the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting
Frame - 2 Somebody ----s
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Hypernym concede, profess, confess
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Hyponym concede, profess, confess

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