Concede
[kən'siːd] or [kən'sid]
Definition
(verb.) be willing to concede; 'I grant you this much'.
(verb.) admit (to a wrongdoing); 'She confessed that she had taken the money'.
(verb.) acknowledge defeat; 'The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose'.
(verb.) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another.
Checked by Debs--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
(v. t.) To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
(v. t.) To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
(v. i.) To yield or make concession.
Typed by Benjamin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Surrender, yield, give up.[2]. Allow, admit, grant.
Typist: Robinson
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Surrender, grant, allow, yield, admit, resign
ANT:Refuse, withhold, deny, contradict, contest, claim, contend
Editor: Oswald
Definition
v.t. to cede or give up: to quit: to surrender: to admit: to grant.—v.i. to admit or grant.—n. Conced′er.
Edited by Adrian
Examples
- I owe to her--what I would concede to no man alive--a PROOF of the truth of my assertion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You must concede that there are abuses, Hawley, said Mr. Hackbutt, foreseeing some political disagreement with his family lawyer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He would confine the terms King or State to the rule of reason and justice, and he will not concede that title either to a democracy or to a monarchy. Plato. The Republic.
- There had been too great a waste of blood and treasure to concede anything of the kind. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Concede, conciliate, is their motto wherever he is concerned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I concede both admissions to my honourable and learned friend. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- More I am willing to concede--that the First Born are no holier than the Holy Therns, nor the Holy Therns more holy than the red men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Of course, Mr. Jackson reluctantly conceded, it's to be hoped they can tide him over--this time anyhow. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They did not want to be bothered with it; it was, they conceded, the affairs of kings and princes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But you must have three weeks to do India properly, her husband conceded, anxious to have it understood that he was no frivolous globe-trotter. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- You may,' Fledgeby graciously conceded. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It had been his own idea to wear that touch of powder, and I had conceded the powder after overcoming the shorts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Some of the light-weight models are using belt drive, but chain drive is generally conceded to be superior. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Her head concedes it, and Volumnia is enchanted. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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