concede

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verb

1. admit (to a wrongdoing) (Freq. 10)
- She confessed that she had taken the money
• Syn:
profess, confess
• Derivationally related forms:
confession (for: confess), confessor (for: confess), profession (for: profess)
• Hypernyms:
admit, acknowledge
• Hyponyms:
make a clean breast of, own up, fess up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
2. be willing to concede (Freq. 6)
- I grant you this much
• Syn:
yield, grant
• Derivationally related forms:
yielding (for: yield), concessive, concession, conceding
• Hypernyms:
agree, hold, concur, concord
• Hyponyms:
forgive
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- Somebody ----s to somebody
- Somebody ----s (for: yield)
- Somebody ----s
3. give over;
surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another (Freq. 4)
• Syn:
yield, cede, grant
• Derivationally related forms:
cession (for: cede), concession, conceding
• Hypernyms:
give
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
4. acknowledge defeat
- The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose
• Derivationally related forms:
concession, conceding
• Hypernyms:
surrender, give up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  yield, cede, grant, profess, confess