Concede vs Cede - What's the difference?
concede | cede | Related terms |
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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(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
Cede is a related term of concede.
As verbs the difference between concede and cede
is that concede is to yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question while cede is to give up, give way, give away.concede
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Verb
(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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