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| 1. | [ verb ] make a clean breast of | |
| Synonyms: | confess profess | |
| Examples: | "She confessed that she had taken the money" |
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| Related terms: | admit confession professing | |
| 2. | [ verb ] be willing to concede | |
| Synonyms: | grant yield | |
| Examples: | "I grant you this much..." |
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| Related terms: | agree forgive concession | |
| 3. | [ verb ] give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | |
| Synonyms: | yield grant cede | |
| Related terms: | give cession | |
| 4. | [ verb ] acknowledge defeat | |
| Examples: | "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose" |
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| Related terms: | surrender concession | |
| Similar spelling: |
conceded connected conceit Concetta coincide connecter conceited conceding coincident connect connective coon_cat Constance consider connector |
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