fess

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

PHRASALVERBS fess up (AmE, informal) to admit that you have done sth wrong: It's time for the President to fess up. \

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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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fessEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus fessEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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