HOW TO PRONOUNCE
concede
/kənˈsid/
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What does concede mean?
verb
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
More meanings (3)
verb
- To yield or make concession.
- To have a goal or point scored against
- (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.
She, conceding his attitude toward her, asks him to concede, in turn, that such a thing as mutual love HAS been.
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.
The main trouble all concede to be her falsifications, which vary from direct denials to elaborate stories invented without any seeming reason whatever.
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.