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third-person singular simple present cedes, present participle ceding, simple past and past participle ceded
(transitive) To give up; yield to another. quotations examples
In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese.
2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, page 227
(intransitive) To give way. examples