Usually means: Admit responsibility for one's actions.
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  1. own up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. own up: Merriam-Webster
  3. own up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. own up: Vocabulary.com
  5. own up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. own up: Wiktionary
  7. own up: Dictionary.com
  8. own up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. own up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. own up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. own up: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To acknowledge, confess, or admit guilt or responsibility. [with to]

Similar:
front up, step forward, fess up, 'fess up, confess, put one's hands up, take responsibility, put one's hand up, come clean, confesse, more...

Opposite:
deny, disavow, disclaim, repudiate, refute

Phrases:
own up to, confess or own up to, to own up to, more...

Adjectives:
accept, own, clear, fess, deferent, ok, acceptant, avail, approbate, admissive, acknowledged

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Similar:
front up, step forward, fess up, 'fess up, confess, put one's hands up, take responsibility, put one's hand up, come clean, confesse, more...

Opposite:
deny, disavow, disclaim, repudiate, refute

Phrases:
own up to, confess or own up to, to own up to, more...

Adjectives:
accept, own, clear, fess, deferent, ok, acceptant, avail, approbate, admissive, acknowledged



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