own up ownself • ownwayish · · · Info · Definitions · Synonyms · Characters · · own up · · Text Common · · Latin · · Scripts 6 · · Length 2 · · Syllables Definitions · · · (verb) admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error. Synonyms: make a clean breast of, own up, fess up. Example: "The writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting." · · Verb Definition 1 Synonyms · · · make a clean breast of · · Synonym 1 fess up · · Synonym 2 Characters · · space U+0020 n latin small letter n U+006E o latin small letter o U+006F p latin small letter p U+0070 u latin small letter u U+0075 w latin small letter w U+0077