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

(conniv)

to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude

to plot or scheme

to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately

* Jeremy Taylor

to connive at what it does not approve

* Burke

In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving .

* Macaulay

The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.

(archaic) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

* Spectator

The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.

to be a wench