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to own up
[phrase form: own]
01
to confess and take responsibility for one's mistakes
Transitive: to own up to one's mistakes
Grammatical Information
Action verb
Regular
Inseparable
Present tense
own up
3rd person singular
owns 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.
