concede
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- Regno Unito//kənˈsiːd//
- Regno Unito/[kənˈsɪid]/
- Stati Uniti//kənˈsid//
To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
verbo
- 1
To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
I have to concede the argument.
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.
- 2
To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- 3
To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor.
Transport Minister Baroness Vere has conceded that the Government does not yet know how its flagship £96 billion Integrated Rail Plan "will actually work on the ground".
- 4
To yield or make concession.
- 5
To have a goal or point scored against
I don't know how they conceded that goal; their defense was so solid.
The visitors arrived at the Reebok Stadium boasting an impressive record of winning their last eight Premier League games there without conceding a goal.
- 6
(of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
Etimologia
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French conceder, from Latin concēdō (“give way, yield”), from con- (“wholly”) + cēdō (“to yield, give way, to go, grant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to go, yield”).
Forme
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- conceded
- participio passato
- conceded
- participio presente
- conceding
- 3ª persona singolare
- concedes
concede · To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
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