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owns up

owns up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of own up.

Meaning of own up

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.
    Synonyms:
    fess up, come clean

Questions about owns up

What is owns up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Owns up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of own up.

Words near owns up in the dictionary

  1. owning
  2. owning up
  3. ownings
  4. ownness
  5. owns
  6. owns up
  7. ownself
  8. ownship
  9. ownships
  10. ownsome
  11. ownsomes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: owns up (page history and authors); own up (page history and authors). 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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