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Confess, make a full admission, as in Come on, Tim, you'd better own up that you lost the car keys. This idiom uses the verb own in the sense of “acknowledge.” [Colloquial; mid-1800s] Words nearby own upownership, ownership flat, own goal, own medicine, own person, be one's, own up, Owosso, Owren's disease, owse, owt, ox The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to own upfeign, pretend, stump, affirm, confess, acknowledge, proclaim, admit, avow, relinquish, cede, hand over, quit, grant, accept, yield, allow, surrender, capitulate, cave in |