concede

v 1: make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken

the money" [syn: {profess}, {confess}]

2: be willing to concede; "I grant you this much..." [syn: {yield},

{grant}]

3: give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control

of another [syn: {yield}, {cede}, {grant}]

4: acknowledge defeat; "The candidate conceded after enough

votes had come in to show that he would lose"