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Cede

//siːd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To give up; yield to another. transitive

    "Edward decided to cede the province."

  2. 2
    relinquish possession or control over wordnet
  3. 3
    To give up; yield to another.; Same as above. ditransitive, transitive

    "After figuring out the seating arrangement and ceding him the window seat, I took my own seat by the aisle."

  4. 4
    give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another wordnet
  5. 5
    To give way. intransitive

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin cēdō (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”). Cognate with Tocharian B kätk- (“to cross, pass”).

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