Pronunciation
- IPA: /kənˈsiːd/
concede (concedes, present participle conceding; past and past participle conceded)
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
- I have to concede the argument.
- He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.
- Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
- To yield or make concession.
- (sports) To have a goal or point scored against
- (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
- (surrender) capitulate, give up; See also Thesaurus:surrender
- (in sports) let in
- (yield or make concession) accede, come around, give way; See also Thesaurus:accede
- French: concéder, céder, admettre
- German: zugeben, zugestehen
- Portuguese: ceder
- Russian: сдаваться
- Spanish: conceder, ceder
- French: concéder que, reconnaître, admettre
- German: einräumen, zugestehen
- Portuguese: conceder, reconhecer
- Russian: призна́ть
- French: concéder
- Russian: пропустить
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