| 释义 |
own up
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. | own up - admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting"fess up, make a clean breast ofconcede, confess, profess - admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken the money" |
Translationsown (əun) verb1. to have as a possession. I own a car. 擁有 拥有2. to admit that something is true. I own that I have not been working very hard. 承認 承认 adjective, pronoun belonging to (the person stated). The house is my own; I saw it with my own eyes. 自己的 自己的ˈowner noun a person who owns something. Are you the owner of that car? 所有人 所有人ˈownership noun 所有權 所有权get one's own back to revenge oneself. He has beaten me this time, but I'll get my own back (on him). 報復 报复own up (often with to) to admit that one has done something. He owned up to having broken the window. 坦白 坦白own up
own up (to something)To admit or confess (to doing something). Everyone knows you're responsible, so it will look better if you just own up. Tom finally owned up to eating my burrito.See also: own, upown up (to something)to admit something; to confess to something. I know you broke the window. Come on and own up to it.See also: own, upown upConfess, 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] See also: own, upown upv. To confess to something; admit something: If the person who stole the erasers doesn't own up, recess will be canceled. The thief owned up to the crime.See also: own, upown up (to), toTo admit something, to confess. Dating from the mid-1800s, this expression seems to use own in the sense of possessing responsibility for something. “On being arrested he owned up to his crime,” appeared in the Boston Journal (May 23, 1890).See also: own, upLegalSeeownFinancialSeeOwnown up
Related to own up: come over, To pull offSynonyms for own upverb admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or errorSynonyms- fess up
- make a clean breast of
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