| Collocation | Admit defeat |
|---|---|
| Type | Verb + Noun |
| Examples | to accept that you can't achieve a goal or succeed in doing something and stop trying to do it. / He never admits defeat before a game's over, no matter how far behind he is. / Mark couldn't fix the car himself, so he admitted defeat and called a mechanic. |
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