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fess up

verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026

admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

MWE

Classifications

Cognitive

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Responsibility

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Automation

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Variants

synonym
make a clean breast of
pasttense
fessed up
presentparticiple
fessing up
thirdpersonsingular
fesses up
pastparticiple
fessed up