Front | concede |
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Pron | [kən'siːd] |
Back | 【concede】 v.承认 They conceded that victory was no longer attainable and agreed to a negotiated surrender. 他们承认无法获胜,并同意判投降。 |
Vocab | concedegive over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
If you concede something, you admit that it is true, proper, or certain––usually in an unwilling way and often in the context of a competition, as in "At midnight, the candidate finally conceded defeat." In its most common senses, a near synonym of concede is acknowledge––if your mom is pointing out that you need sleep before the test, you should concede the truth of what she's saying. But another meaning of concede is to give away or grant something: The leaders are not ready to concede power. Concede is from Latin concēdere, from the prefix com- "completely" plus cēdere, "to go along, grant, yield." The corresponding noun is concession. All forms of 'concede' will appear on average once every 220 pages. concede conceding concession concessive |
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