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fess up - admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting"

make a clean breast of, own up

concede, confess, profess - admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken the money"

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But it's too bad it couldn't have at least prompted Delgadillo to fess up fully to the charges.

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Today's sinners can fess up anonymously online at DailyConfession.

Father, forgive me by Sweas, Megan / U.S. Catholic

He said: "It's almost a question of people not wanting to fess up to the notion that we will be there a long time, and they might have to set up a rotation and sustain it for the long term".

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