conceding

Verb

concede (third-person singular simple present concedes, present participle conceding, simple past and past participle conceded)

1. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
   • I have to concede the argument.

   Synonyms:

   capitulate

2. To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
3. To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
   • Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 161

   Synonyms:

   give, grant

4. To yield or make concession.

   Synonyms:

   accede

5. To have a goal or point scored against
   • I don't know how they conceded that goal; their defense was so solid.

   Synonyms:

   let in

6. (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.