Giving and transferring

Synonyms for cede

The synonym for cede recorded in this bank is yield, in the sense "to give up possession or control of something, typically unwillingly". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for cede

yieldverb, in the sense "to give up possession or control of something, typically unwillingly"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for cede.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineGiving and transferring

to give up possession or control of something, typically unwillingly

After the war, the empire had to cede the province to its rival.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

yield

Same sentence, swapped: After the war, the empire had to yield the province to its rival.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for cede in the sentence quoted.

sell
lease
mortgage

Where cede turns up in the game

cede is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where cede is the trap

grantverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is accord, in the sense "allow to have", with cede sitting one tile away.

Play cede

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cede reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Closest first: other giving and transferring words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

communicateverbconveytransfer to anotherTreelineHas a reason line concedeverbgrantto give up or yield, acknowledging another's claimTreelineHas a reason line conveyverbtransferto legally transfer ownership of property to someoneTreelineHas a reason line disburseverbdistributeto pay out money from a fundTreelineHas a reason line allocateverbassignto give out as a share for a particular purposeFoothillsHas a reason line allotverballocateto give a share of something to each of a number of peopleTreelineHas a reason line almsnoundonationsmoney or goods given to poor people as charityTreelineHas a reason line urbanadjectivemetropolitanrelating to or characteristic of a densely built-up cityTreelineHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. cede carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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