fess

/fes/ verb

Translation

fess up phrasal verb informal

› to admit that you have done something bad

suçu/hatayı/kusuru kabul etmek, itiraf etmek

He eventually fessed up to having spilt coffee on it.1174

(Definition of fess verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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