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单词 own up
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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

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own up

phrasal verb with own us/oʊn/verb [ T ]

to tell the truth or to admit that you are responsible for something:

A young nurse looked at the two men and waited for one of them to own up.
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