English Explanatory Dictionary

concede

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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
  4. To yield or make concession.
  5. To have a goal or point scored against
  6. (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

Pronunciation

/kənˈsiːd/ /kənˈsid/ [kənˈsɪid] en-au-concede.ogg

Word forms

concede concedes conceding conceded

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”).

Synonyms

give up come around give way capitulate give grant accede let in

Related words

concession

Derived words

concededly concedence reconcede unconcede unconceded unconceding
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