concede

Verb
  1. Admit (to a wrongdoing) (synset 200820214)
    "She confessed that she had taken the money"
    hypernym: acknowledge, admit - declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
    hyponym: fess up, make a clean breast of, own up - admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
    synonym: confess, profess
  2. Be willing to concede (synset 200807711)
    "I grant you this much"
    hypernym: agree, concord, concur, hold - be in accord; be in agreement
    hyponym: forgive - stop blaming or grant forgiveness
    synonym: grant, yield
  3. Give over;
    Surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another (synset 202321629)
    hypernym: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
    synonym: cede, grant, yield
  4. Acknowledge defeat (synset 201120027)
    "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose"
    hypernym: give up, surrender - give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another

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