concede
Meaning
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge; to grant.
- To yield or make concession.
- To have a goal or point scored against
- (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
Synonyms
yield
fork up
deed over
plead guilty
accept the other’s superiority
give a head start
give an advantage
give handicap
bestlow
give into
renounce claim
approve of
conciliate
disclose
Frequency
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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