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concede

  • verb
  • /kənˈsiːd/

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant

Example

“I have to concede the argument.”

Other meanings

  1. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

  2. To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge

Related words

  • concededly
  • unconceded
  • concedence
  • reconcede
  • unconcede
  • unconceding

Word history

From Latin "concēdō" (give way, yield).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “concede” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.