own up

• Verbe à particule signifiant admettre ou reconnaître sa faute, son erreur ou sa responsabilité, souvent après avoir hésité.

A phrasal verb meaning to admit or confess to something, especially a mistake or wrongdoing.

indénombrable · intransitif · phrasal, inséparable

1. Confess or admitinformal

   To admit that you have done something wrong or are responsible for something.

   avouer, reconnaître (une faute)

   • He finally owned up to breaking the window.
   • She owned up to her mistake during the meeting.
   • The child owned up to taking the cookie without permission.

   Synonymesacknowledgeadmitconcedeconfessfess up

   Antonymesdenydisavowdisclaim

Verbe de baseown