1. (

• concede ,
• profess ,
• confess ,

) admit (to a wrongdoing); "She confessed that she had taken the money" ;

2. (

• concede ,
• yield ,
• grant

) be willing to concede; "I grant you this much" ;

3. (

• concede ,
• yield ,
• cede ,
• grant ,

) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another ;

4. (

• concede

) acknowledge defeat; "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose" ;