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fess up

verbid 9317·updated Jun 3, 2026
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admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

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Classifications

Cognitive

Remember75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
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