cede
Give up territory
Cede means to give up or surrender something, typically territory, rights, or control, often formally or reluctantly: Germany ceded Alsace-Lorraine to France after the war.
The word implies yielding to pressure or superior force rather than willing transfer: The company refused to cede market share to its competitors.
He finally ceded the point after hours of argument.
Voluntarily give up control
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- capitulateYield under pressure
- forfeitLose through violation
- cessionFormal transfer of territory
renounce · abdicate · surrender · waive · submit · acquiesce · resign · transfer
Earth's solid surface
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- provinceRegional administrative district
- regionIndefinite bounded area
border · annexation · partition · sovereignty · domain · possession · claim · boundary
relinquish
Voluntarily give up control
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- capitulateYield under pressure
- forfeitLose through violation
cession · renounce · abdicate · surrender · waive · submit · acquiesce · resign · transfer · convey
land
Earth's solid surface
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- provinceRegional administrative district
region · border · annexation · partition · sovereignty · domain · possession · claim · boundary · jurisdiction
- giving upgive up, giving up, quit, quitting, surrender
- surrendersurrender, surrenders, surrendering, I surrender, capitulate
- Latin Rootsact, cent, cred, duct, fac
- dividing and givingdistribute, allocate, divide, give, share
- givinggift, give, donating, donation, donate
- ownershipowner, own, ownership, possess, proprietorship
- cede the fieldSurrender a contested position
- ceded landsTerritory formally surrendered
recede, precede, concede, preceding, precedent, accede, intercede, secede, conceded