concede

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to admit to a wrongdoing

   I concede my actions were not right.

2. 2
   verb

   to acknowledge defeat

   The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that they would lose.

3. 3
   verb

   To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant

   I have to concede the argument.

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   To have a goal or point scored against

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

6. 6
   verb

   to be willing to concede

7. 7
   verb

   to give over

8. 8
   verb

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

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”).