concede

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb admit (to a wrongdoing)
  2. verb be willing to concede
  3. verb give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

Etymology

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”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

profess, confess

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