Concede

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  • intransitive verb. To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit: synonym: acknowledge.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To acknowledge or admit (defeat).
  • intransitive verb. To acknowledge defeat in.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To yield or surrender (something owned or disputed, such as land).
  • intransitive verb. To yield or grant (a privilege or right, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To allow (a goal or point, for example) to be scored by the opposing team or player.
  • intransitive verb. To make a concession or acknowledge defeat; yield.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make a concession of; grant as a right or a privilege; yield up; allow: as, the government conceded the franchise to a foreign syndicate.
  • To admit as true, just, or proper; admit; grant; acquiesce in, either by direct assent or by silent acceptance. See concession.
  • To make concession; grant a petition, or accept a disputed or disputable point; yield; admit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To yield or make concession.
  • transitive verb. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant.
  • transitive verb. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
  • transitive verb. To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
  • verb. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
  • verb. To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
  • verb. To yield or make concession.
  • verb. To have a goal or point scored against
  • verb. (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. acknowledge defeat
  • verb. admit (to a wrongdoing)
  • verb. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
  • verb. be willing to concede
  • Word Usage
    "In some ways, this would be worse for conservatives — unless Congress was also willing to repeal very popular regulations (which even conservatives concede is a non-starter), the result will be the bankruptcy of insurance companies and a paved road to socialized insurance."
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    give  give up  surrender  
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aristide  Bede  Ede  Gilead  Mead  
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