OWN UP

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does own up mean? 

• OWN UP (verb)
  The verb OWN UP has 1 sense:

1. admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

  Familiarity information: OWN UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OWN UP (verb)

Meaning:

Admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

fess up; own up

Context example:

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

Hypernyms (to "own up" is one way to...):

concede; confess; profess (admit, make a clean breast of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s