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Conclude vs Concede - What's the difference?

conclude | concede |

As verbs the difference between conclude and concede

is that conclude is to end; to come to an end while concede is .

conclude

English

Verb

(conclud)
  • To end; to come to an end.
  • The story concluded with a moral.
  • To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
  • To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
  • to conclude a bargain
  • * Shakespeare
  • if we conclude a peace
  • To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
  • From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
  • * Tillotson
  • No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
  • (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
  • * Addison
  • But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
  • To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
  • The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
    A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
  • (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
  • * Hooker
  • The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
  • (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
  • * Bible, Romans xi. 32
  • For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
  • * Bible, Gal. iii. 22
  • The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
  • (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
  • Derived terms

    * concluder * concludable * conclusion * conclusive * conclusible

    Antonyms

    * (to end) begin, initiate, start

    concede

    English

    Verb

    (conced)
  • 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.
    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
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 2 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The visitors arrived at the Reebok Stadium boasting an impressive record of winning their last eight Premier League games there without conceding a goal.}}
  • (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
  • Synonyms

    (in sports) let in