concede (
http://definr.com/concede)
v 1: make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken
the money" [syn:
profess,
confess]
2: be willing to concede; "I grant you this much..." [syn:
yield,
grant]
3: give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control
of another [syn:
yield,
cede,
grant]
4: acknowledge defeat; "The candidate conceded after enough
votes had come in to show that he would lose"