Difference between Yield and Concede

What is the difference between Yield and Concede?

Yield as a verb is to give way; to allow another to pass first. while Concede as a verb is to yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

Yield

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A product; the quantity of something produced

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give way; to allow another to pass first. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate. To produce as return, as from an investment. The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. To produce as a result.

Example sentence: Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Concede

Part of speech: verb

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

Example sentence: As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR machine would concede that burning their product causes real harm to other people.

We hope you now know whether to use Yield or Concede in your sentence.

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