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Definition

To confess; admit the truth.

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In Context

  • ""You better come clean, Swan, and tell the whole thing. What was it? Don't talk in circles.""
  • "Perhaps it is only fair to come clean at the start and confess that I found J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales a disappointment."
  • "When the sub got stuck, the brass kept the fact under wraps for 32 hours before Russia came clean and asked for foreign help."
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Also Said As

  • fess up
  • own up