concede

Pronunciation: /kənˈsiːd/

The English word “concede” has 6 meanings listed here.

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
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.

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”).

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