concede

Verb

1. To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
   • I have to concede the argument.
   • He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.
   • Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.
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,...
   • On the other hand, she concedes that she has been able (in however limited a fashion) to take agentive actions to facilitate others’ socialization into and through Mandarin through programmatic activities she has...
   • Transport Minister Baroness Vere has conceded that the Government does not yet know how its flagship £96 billion Integrated Rail Plan "will actually work on the ground". - 2022 January 12, Paul Stephen, “Network News:...

   Synonyms: give grant

4. To yield or make concession.
5. To have a goal or point scored against
   • I don't know how they conceded that goal; their defense was so solid.
   • The visitors arrived at the Reebok Stadium boasting an impressive record of winning their last eight Premier League games there without conceding a goal. - 2011 October 2, Jonathan Jurejko, “Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea”, in...
6. to have runs scored off of one's bowling.