CONCEDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concede mean? 

• CONCEDE (verb)
  The verb CONCEDE has 4 senses:

1. admit (to a wrongdoing)

2. be willing to concede

3. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

4. acknowledge defeat

  Familiarity information: CONCEDE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCEDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they concede    ... he / she / it concedes   
Past simple: conceded   
Past participle: conceded   
-ing form: conceding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Admit (to a wrongdoing)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

concede; confess; profess

Context example:

She confessed that she had taken the money

Hypernyms (to "concede" is one way to...):

acknowledge; admit (declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "concede"):

fess up; make a clean breast of; own up (admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be willing to concede

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

concede; grant; yield

Context example:

I grant you this much

Hypernyms (to "concede" is one way to...):

agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "concede"):

forgive (stop blaming or grant forgiveness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody

Derivation:

conceding; concession (the act of conceding or yielding)

concessive (of or pertaining to concession)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cede; concede; grant; yield

Hypernyms (to "concede" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

conceding; concession (the act of conceding or yielding)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Acknowledge defeat

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Context example:

The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose

Hypernyms (to "concede" is one way to...):

give up; surrender (give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

conceding; concession (the act of conceding or yielding)

 Context examples 

This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

However, they conceded that it was purely speculative, and several other scientists have cautioned against linking these bursts to possible alien intelligence.

(Mysterious Radio Signals Detected from Deep Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I received one morning by the post, the following letter, dated Canterbury, and addressed to me at Doctor's Commons; which I read with some surprise: Circumstances beyond my individual control have, for a considerable lapse of time, effected a severance of that intimacy which, in the limited opportunities conceded to me in the midst of my professional duties, of contemplating the scenes and events of the past, tinged by the prismatic hues of memory, has ever afforded me, as it ever must continue to afford, gratifying emotions of no common description.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)