Definitions for cedes

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IPA: /sid/

Cedes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in cedes (cdees).

Definitions for cedes

verb (used with object)

  1. to yield or formally surrender to another:

Origin of cedes

First recorded in 1625-35, cede is from the Latin word cēdere to go, yield

Examples for cedes

She cedes more willingly to this hector who gives her the illusion of strength, that is of the male's beauty.

I like it better than I do any book that pre- cedes it, because it touches upon the human.

The main army of science moves to the conquest of new worlds slowly and surely, nor ever cedes an inch of the territory gained.

Nay, more, for Turkey cedes to England the fruitful and strategic island of Cyprus.

The engineer and the man of projects enter into partnership; Watt cedes two-thirds of his patent to him.

“He was probably a bear with a sore head after that,” she cedes.

By ignoring it, however, he cedes the narrative to the Republicans.

Ross, 18, cedes that whatever his intentions, he did wrong—albeit in a way that amused him.

Does not the power that cedes give up all right whatever to that which accepts?

Word Value for cedes
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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