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concede

/kənˈsid/

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What does concede mean?

verb

  1. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
  2. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
  3. To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
More meanings (3)

verb

  1. To yield or make concession.
  2. To have a goal or point scored against
  3. (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

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IPA pronunciation

/kənˈsid/

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Well, any one who had beheld his spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at that moment.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
She, conceding his attitude toward her, asks him to concede, in turn, that such a thing as mutual love HAS been.
Robert Browning; Hiram CorsonAn Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryProject Gutenberg ebook #260
More book examples (3)
I concede, however, that the attempt of the Empress to ascertain the sites of the minor events cannot be safely relied upon.
Alexander William KinglakeEothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the EastProject Gutenberg ebook #282
The main trouble all concede to be her falsifications, which vary from direct denials to elaborate stories invented without any seeming reason whatever.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449
Let us concede that the English people itself is not and will not be for a very long time within the sphere of practical politics.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) ChestertonWhat's Wrong with the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #1717