concede
v.v. to admit that you have lost a game or an argument. You use this when you stop fighting because you know the other side has won.
v. to admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it; to acknowledge defeat before it has been officially established.
The player decided to concede the match after falling behind by ten points.
With only five minutes left on the clock and a massive score gap, the visiting team had to concede defeat.
Although the final votes were still being tallied, the candidate chose to concede the election to avoid further political instability and allow the transition to begin.
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French conceder, from Latin concēdō (“give way, yield”), from con- (“wholly”) + cēdō (“to yield, give way, to go, grant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to go, yield”).
The verb is transitive and typically takes a direct object like 'defeat', 'a point', or 'the match'.
he conceded about his mistakehe conceded his mistakeConcede is transitive and does not require a preposition before the object.