(v. t.) To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
(v. t.) To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
(v. t.) To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
(v. i.) To yield or make concession.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(3) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(4) He also conceded that commercial operators could not solve the problem alone.
(5) said Bengis, a Miami-based lawyer who campaigned hard for Hillary Clinton four years ago before she conceded the Democratic Party's nomination to Barack Obama.
(6) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
(7) There’s no doubt that we have some work to do on mobilisation,” concedes an insider.
(8) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
(9) The only thing is that we had a chance to score another goal and instead we conceded a goal, as I think you saw.” Russia’s elimination means that Capello, who won nine league titles in 16 seasons with Milan, Real Madrid and Juventus, has now taken charge of seven World Cup games and won only one – when England beat Slovenia 1-0 four years ago.
(10) The only crime was conceding a goal [so soon] after we had scored.
(11) England, having conceded the equal fewest number of goals in the group stages and none against Denmark, might claim to be the best defensive side.
(12) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
(13) Then BuzzFeed decided to publish the full 35-page memo while conceding it was “unverified and potentially unverifiable”.
(14) Even Corbyn’s fiercest critics have to concede he has achieved something astonishing.
(15) The author concedes that a combined version with intact membranes prior to an attempt of vaginal delivery may have been desirable in his cases but he reiterates that a Caesarean section for the second twin was the only way to obtain healthy live infants in his three exceptional cases.
(16) Non-discrimination laws chart Although the decisive manner in which leaders from Silicon Valley and the business community rallied against – and ultimately helped change – the Indiana law marked a major turning point, Talbot conceded that the project itself is unfinished.
(17) Tory U-turn on fracking regulations will leave safeguards totally inadequate | Lisa Nandy and Kerry McCarthy Read more “Ministers had previously conceded there should be the tougher safeguards that Labour has been calling for to protect drinking water sources and sensitive parts of our countryside like national parks,” said the Labour MP.
(18) The way we hit back after conceding that goal was the most pleasing thing.
(19) At the other end, they at least got two goals against a Belgian team that has only conceded one goal in World Cup qualification, but the penalty had a big element of fortune about it, and there'll be concerns about Jozy Altidore yet again failing to score in a Klinsmann team.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Relatives of passengers react to Dutch investigation findings The Dutch safety board report, published in English and Dutch, concedes that family members had to wait “an unnecessarily long period of time” for formal confirmation that their loved ones were dead.
Succumb
Definition:
(v. t.) To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, albino rats and rabbits failed to succumb to overt disease by subcutaneous and intraperitoneal routes of inoculation.
(2) Adult animals succumbed to O2 lung toxicity in 3--5 days.
(3) In places it succumbs to over-commercialisation but this is still one of the finest medieval towns in Europe.
(4) Grosics did his best between the posts, but the team succumbed to Wales in a bruising play-off, thus failing to advance beyond the first stage.
(5) MAbs with high virus-neutralizing activity directed to one antigenic site of the HN protein delayed virus growth and significantly prolonged survival time, but all chickens eventually succumbed to infection.
(6) A fifth victim - an Israeli policeman - succumbed to his injuries late on Tuesday night.
(7) Splenectomy was performed on one twin at age seven years who survived a complicating pneumococcal septicaemia ten days after the procedure, but who succumbed to fulminating infection three years later.
(8) This lowered activity of the NADPH oxidase, with the resulting decreased O2 generation, might be responsible for the failure of the animals to control the parasitaemia; as a result they succumbed to the infection.
(9) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(10) She succumbed to a series of infections that the pre-penicillin world had no drugs to treat.
(11) In vitro practically all common antibiotics except cephalosporins are active against nearly all natural isolates of Listeria monocytogenes; the therapeutic efficacy of antibiotic treatment is, however, rather limited, since up to 30% listeriosis patients will succumb to this infection.
(12) Mice transgenic for a c-myc gene driven by the IgH enhancer (E mu-myc) were shown to almost invariably develop lymphomas, 90% succumbing in the first 5 mo of life.
(13) The net effect however is beneficial since without metastasis the organism would have succumbed to the disease in its earliest stage.
(14) Unable to stand or swallow and forced to communicate through a computer, John Close, 54, a former musician, chose suicide in 2003 as his body succumbed to the remorseless grip of motor neurone disease.
(15) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
(16) Speaking in Queensland earlier this month , Abbott boasted that “any other government, I suspect, would quickly succumb to the cries of the human rights lawyers”.
(17) All four patients succumbed, three in the emergency room and one on the eighth hospital day.
(18) Following inoculation with 0.25 X 10(6) organisms NF or NFA-fed hosts succumbed more rapidly than F, NFR, or NFU fed hosts (P less than 0.001).
(19) Five patients died in aplasia due to infections, one additional patient succumbed to HD-araC related CNS toxicity.
(20) "The leadership role that falls to Germany today is not only awakening historical ghosts all around us, but also tempts us to choose a unilateral national course or even to succumb to power fantasies of a 'German Europe'.