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make a clean breast of

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admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

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Cognitive

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

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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

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
DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column

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