Conceal vs Concede - What's the difference?
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(lb) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed .
To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
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
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, year=2011
, date=October 2
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, title=Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea
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(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
As verbs the difference between conceal and concede
is that conceal is to hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret while concede is to yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.conceal
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(conced)- 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.
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