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

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(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

Verb

(appeas)

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).

to appease the tumult of the ocean

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21

`First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'

To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.

They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.