cedeverb [ T ]
uk/siːd/us/siːd/formalto allow someone else to have or own something, especially unwillingly or because you are forced to do so:
Hong Kong was ceded to Britain after the Opium War.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- bail out
- bandh
- break with sth
- butt out
- chuck sth in
- drop
- fly
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- give up sth
- grow
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- towel
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