fess up

Verb

Meaning

admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

own up make a clean breast of tell reveal disclose confess divulge unburden let the cat out of the bag let on swear to God come clean keep it real make a clean breast be frank

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Antonyms

mislead falsify delude lead astray stretch the truth fake out

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Hypernyms

concede confess profess

Examples

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done. Macaulay Culkin

the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting Source: Internet

But, for some people, their 'thing' is more than a 'thing': it's a sex fetish they're too ashamed to 'fess up to. Source: Internet

I thought Teck would continue to play the UCP along as long as possible, or at least not fess up until after the federal government had ruled. Source: Internet

If you make a mistake, fess up. Source: Internet

He would force the boys to fess up to me that they had given their sister a black eye or made marks on them. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Fesperman fess fess point fesse fesse point fesselin