"concede" in the verb sense
1. concede, profess, confess
admit (to a wrongdoing
"She confessed that she had taken the money"
2. concede, yield, grant
be willing to concede
"I grant you this much"
3. concede, yield, cede, grant
give over surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
4. concede
acknowledge defeat
"The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose"
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