'own up' definitions:
Definition of 'own up'
(from WordNet)
verb
Admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting" [syn: make a clean breast of, own up, fess up]
Synonyms of 'own up'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acknowledge,
- admit,
- admit everything,
- allow,
- avow,
- come clean,
- concede,
- confess,
- cop a plea,
- grant,
- let on,
- open up,
- out with it,
- own,
- plead guilty,
- spill,
- spill it,
- spit it out,
- tell all,
- tell the truth