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

(reced)

To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

* Dryden

Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from the instituted shore.

* Bentley

All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center.

To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.

to recede conquered territory

To take back.