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make a clean breast of

verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026

admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

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Classifications

Cognitive

Understand85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility

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Automation

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Variants

synonym
fess upown up
pasttense
made a clean breast ofmaked a clean breast of
presentparticiple
making a clean breast of
thirdpersonsingular
makes a clean breast of
pastparticiple
made a clean breast ofmaked a clean breast of