concede
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Latin concedere "give way, yield," from com- + cedere "to go, grant, give way", from Proto-Indo-European base *ked- "to go, yield".
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to concede (third-person singular simple present concedes, present participle conceding, simple past and past participle conceded)
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
- He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
- To yield or make concession.
- (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
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to yield or suffer; to surrender
to admit to be true
[edit] Galician
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concede
- third-person singular present indicative of conceder.
- second-person singular imperative of conceder.
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concede
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concede (infinitive: conceder)
- informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of conceder.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of conceder.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of conceder.
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