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own up

own up verb: to acknowledge, confess, or admit guilt or responsibility.

Verb

own up (third-person singular simple present owns up, present participle owning up, simple past and past participle owned up)

  1. (intransitive) To acknowledge, confess, or admit guilt or responsibility.
    • I'll own up: I glued your mouse to its mat.
    • If you own up to breaking the glass, you'll be forgiven.
    Synonyms:
    fess up, come clean

own up meaning in Malayalam

own up in Malayalam

confess (to), admit to, admit guilt
ചെയ്ത തെറ്റു തുറന്നു പറയുക, കുറ്റം ഏറ്റുപറയുക, ഏറ്റുപറയുക, കുറ്റം സമ്മതിക്കുക, സമ്മതിക്കുക, പഴിഏൽക്കുക

Synonyms of own up

Forms of own up

third-person singular presentowns up
present participleowning up
past participleowned up
pastowned up

Questions about own up

What does own up mean?
Own up means to acknowledge, confess, or admit guilt or responsibility.
What is own up in Malayalam?
Own up in Malayalam is ചെയ്ത തെറ്റു തുറന്നു പറയുക, കുറ്റം ഏറ്റുപറയുക, ഏറ്റുപറയുക. See Own up meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is own up?
Own up is a verb.
What is the past tense of own up?
The past tense of own up is owned up.

Words near own up in the dictionary

  1. own goals
  2. own label
  3. own labels
  4. own motion
  5. own time, own target
  6. own up
  7. Own Voices
  8. own-account
  9. own-goal
  10. own-goals
  11. ownability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: own up (page history and authors); own up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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