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    MAKE A CLEAN BREAST OF

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or errorplay

    Example:

    the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting

    Synonyms:

    fess up; make a clean breast of; own up

    Classified under:

    Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

    Hypernyms (to "make a clean breast of" is one way to...):

    concede; confess; profess (admit (to a wrongdoing))

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s

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