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Fess up   /fɛs əp/   Listen
Fess up

verb
1.
Admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error.  Synonyms: make a clean breast of, own up.





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"Fess up" Quotes from Famous Books



... hope so, for Jack's sake!" sighed the little person. "After she forgives us, I'm going to 'fess up everything. Of course she'll be scandalized—for what we're doing is simply awful!—but all the same I'll tell her. And after she's forgiven us, I'll make her forgive you, too, Matilda, for your part in harboring us here. We'll see that you do ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott


Words linked to "Fess up" :   profess, make a clean breast of, confess, own up, concede


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