Concede vs Relinquish - What's the difference?
concede | relinquish |
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
* {{quote-news
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, date=October 2
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, title=Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea
, work=BBC Sport
(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
To give up, abandon or retire from something.
To let go (free, away), physically release.
To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
To accept to give up, withdraw etc.
As verbs the difference between concede and relinquish
is that concede is to yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question while relinquish is to give up, abandon or retire from something.concede
English
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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Synonyms
(in sports) let inrelinquish
English
Verb
(es)- to relinquish a title
- to relinquish property
- to relinquish rights
- to relinquish citizenship or nationality
- But it was the most fleeting of false dawns. Dmitri Yachvilli slotted a penalty from distance after Flood failed to release his man on the deck, and France took a grip they would never relinquish .
- ''The delegations saved the negotiations by relinquishing their incompatible claims to sole jurisdiction