concede

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit: synonym: acknowledge.
• intransitive verb To acknowledge or admit (defeat).
• intransitive verb To acknowledge defeat in.
• intransitive verb To yield or surrender (something owned or disputed, such as land).
• intransitive verb To yield or grant (a privilege or right, for example).
• intransitive verb Sports To allow (a goal or point, for example) to be scored by the opposing team or player.
• intransitive verb To make a concession or acknowledge defeat; yield.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make a concession of; grant as a right or a privilege; yield up; allow: as, the government conceded the franchise to a foreign syndicate.
• To admit as true, just, or proper; admit; grant; acquiesce in, either by direct assent or by silent acceptance. See concession.
• To make concession; grant a petition, or accept a disputed or disputable point; yield; admit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To yield or make concession.
• transitive verb To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant.
• transitive verb To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
• transitive verb To admit to be true; to acknowledge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
• verb To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
• verb To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
• verb To yield or make concession.
• verb sports To have a goal or point scored against
• verb cricket (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb acknowledge defeat
• verb admit (to a wrongdoing)
• verb give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
• verb be willing to concede