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Concede

//kənˈsiːd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant

    "I have to concede the argument."

  2. 2
    be willing to concede wordnet
  3. 3
    To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
  4. 4
    admit (to a wrongdoing) wordnet
  5. 5
    To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge

    "Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor."

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  1. 6
    acknowledge defeat wordnet
  2. 7
    To yield or make concession.
  3. 8
    give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another wordnet
  4. 9
    To have a goal or point scored against

    "I don't know how they conceded that goal; their defense was so solid."

  5. 10
    (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French conceder, from Latin concēdō (“give way, yield”), from con- (“wholly”) + cēdō (“to yield, give way, to go, grant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to go, yield”).

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