concede
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
admit (to a wrongdoing)
She confessed that she had taken the money
Types & categories
- acknowledge hypernym
- make a clean breast of hyponym
Related & opposite
- confession derivation
- professing derivation
- confession derivation
- confessor derivation
Sense 2 verb
be willing to concede
I grant you this much
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- conceding derivation
- concessive derivation
Sense 3 verb
give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
Types & categories
- give hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
acknowledge defeat
The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose
Types & categories
- surrender hypernym
Related & opposite
- conceding derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confession |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | professing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confession |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confessor |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | acknowledge |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | make a clean breast of |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | conceding |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | concessive |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | concur |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | forgive |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | cession |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | conceding |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | give |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | conceding |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | surrender |