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CONCEDE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be willing to concede

Example:

I grant you this much

Synonyms:

concede; grant; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "concede" is one way to...):

agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "concede"):

forgive (stop blaming or grant forgiveness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody

Derivation:

conceding; concession (the act of conceding or yielding)

concessive (of or pertaining to concession)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Admit (to a wrongdoing)

Example:

She confessed that she had taken the money

Synonyms:

concede; confess; profess

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "concede" is one way to...):

acknowledge; admit (declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "concede"):

fess up; make a clean breast of; own up (admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Acknowledge defeat

Example:

The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "concede" is one way to...):

give up; surrender (give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

conceding; concession (the act of conceding or yielding)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

Synonyms:

cede; concede; grant; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "concede" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

conceding; concession (the act of conceding or yielding)

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