Verb
admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
Source: WordNetMen will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? Frank Moore Colby
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information. Walt Disney
When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it. Randy Jackson
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward. Edith Piaf
When we own up our mistakes some people interpret it as if we are wrong. They too commit mistakes. E. M. S. Namboodiripad
When we own up our mistakes some people interpret as if we alone were in the wrong. The fact is that just as we did, they also committed mistakes. If in the debate on Roopa Bhadrata we erred, people like Mundassery also erred equally. E. M. S. Namboodiripad