Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb fess_up

1 sense of fess up

Sense 1
make a clean breast of, own up, fess up -- (admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting")
       => concede, profess, confess -- (admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken the money")