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to own up
01
to confess and take responsibility for one's mistakes
Transitive: to own up to one's mistakes
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Inseparable
Particle
up
Base verb
own
Present tense
own up
3rd person singular
owns up
Present participle
owning up
Past simple
owned up
Past participle
owned up
Examples
The student chose to own up to plagiarizing the essay and faced the academic consequences.
