concede

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Roma and Juve both have to score and not concede, which is going to be tougher considering that every centre back on an Italian football team decided to get injured this week.

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  1. transitive verb To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit. See Synonyms at acknowledge.
  2. transitive verb To yield or grant (a privilege or right, for example).
  3. intransitive verb To make a concession: yield: The losing candidate conceded at midnight after the polls had closed.

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  • Trist seemed to think it rather generous of himself to concede, and I suppose it was. —  Hobb, Robin - The Soldier Son 01 - Shaman's Crossing (v2.0)
  • We were unlucky to concede, a brilliant assist from Lampard costing us all three points. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • I concede, there is a chance that all of the MIDL code resides in the server, and when I call a COM method from a client, all I have to do is call it by name. —  Aqua-Soft News
  • Even Washington's precise war aims in Afghanistan more than seven years after U. S.-backed forces chased the Taliban out of the country appear subject to continuing debate, as, in the face of what virtually all analysts and officials concede is a deteriorating situation, the Pentagon is actively downgrading the Bush administration's hopes of ushering in a thriving democracy to something far less ambitious. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • As staffers inside the National Right to Life Committee would have to concede, the ban does not significantly influence the abortion rate, since it only inhibits a particular procedure.
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  1. French concéder, from Latin concēdere : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + cēdere, to yield; see ked- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French concéder = Spanish Portuguese conceder = Italian concedere, from Latin concedere, past participle concessus, go with, give way, yield, grant, from com-, with, + cedere, go, -cede, grant: see cede. Hence concession, etc.
 

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