own up
— phrasal verb with own uk/əʊn/us/oʊn/verb
C2 to admit that you have done something wrong:
No one has owned up to stealing the money.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Admitting & confessing
- acknowledge
- acknowledgment
- admittedly
- avow
- back down
- climb
- come clean idiom
- concessionary
- deny
- eat
- eat your words idiom
- hand
- I stand corrected idiom
- make a clean breast of it idiom
- retract
- say
- self-confessed
- stand
- swallow
- take sth back
See more results »