concede

Meaning

  1. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
  2. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
  3. To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge; to grant.
  4. To yield or make concession.
  5. To have a goal or point scored against
  6. (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kənˈsiːd/
Etymology

In summary

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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