CEDES Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

cedes

verb

present tense third-person singular of cede

as in relinquishes

to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress she reluctantly ceded her position as leader

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as in assigns

to give over the legal possession or ownership of Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States as part of the settlement of the Spanish-American War

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expropriates

as in abdicates

to give up (as a position of authority) formally the President officially cedes his position on the January 20th immediately following the presidential election

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Recent Examples of cedes In many instances, Madonna cedes the dance floor to Price, her voice floating over his ecstatic music. — David Harris, SPIN, 13 July 2026 Lean too far toward caution and a firm cedes ground to bolder rivals and to the automation-first newcomers. — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 That’s what happens when the hegemon cedes hegemony. — Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026 In this instance, the goalie cedes a lot of ice behind him to cover off a pass. — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 9 May 2026 Annie gets the best monologue as Maggie but cedes the part’s biggest musical moment to Babs. — Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026 Choosing silence also cedes our right to free speech. — Jenna Norton, STAT, 12 Mar. 2026 The specialization that cedes politics, economics or communication to separate disciplines is, in sociology, an invitation to synthesize and to consider how these broad social processes engage, reinforce or conflict with one another. — Wendy Nelson Espeland, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026 The lead-up to Kennedy’s circus of sci-fi fantasists and food bloggers provides an object lesson in how the left cedes fertile political territory to the right. — Annie Levin, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cedes

Verb

Could this be the anarchic mind that emerges when the ego relinquishes its hold?

— Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
If a player chooses not to negotiate with the Panthers, that player will be unable to sign elsewhere, unless Carolina relinquishes his rights by not offering him a tender.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2026

Definition of relinquishes

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There’s a common perception among fans that FIFA assigns the matches each referee will officiate from the very beginning of the tournament.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
India’s Aadhaar system, created in 2009, uses iris scans and fingerprints, and assigns a unique twelve-digit number to all residents.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

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Summer is usually the busiest season for shelters, officials said, as more stray animals, owner surrenders and vulnerable kittens arrive.

— Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
For an Astros pitching staff that surrenders the third-highest fly-ball rate of any team in the sport, this matters.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 29 June 2026

Definition of surrenders

Verb

The effect, say experts in fashion and politics, is a softer look that conveys authority without confrontation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
And Cooke, the season’s MVP of revealing expressions and reaction shots, conveys through Alicent’s uncertain and frightened face at all those butterflies a dawning realization of the betrayal she’s suffered.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of conveys

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Cregan resigns the next day and heads back north after falling in love with Alysanne Blackwood, the cool archer lady with the eye shadow.

— James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
School districts have long been required to report to the state any teacher who is fired or who resigns due to misconduct.

— Holly McDede, ProPublica, 31 July 2026

Definition of resigns

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Any page that’s readable by a human could also be correctly interpreted by an AI scraping tool that simply renders the full webpage and uses optical character recognition on an image of the output.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
However, a severe injury now renders any potential deal for the 20-year-old virtually impossible, altering his immediate future at the club.

— Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of renders

Verb

The younger Gere plays Robert Mallory, the handsome new student who transfers to Buckley prep at the same time that The Trawler begins killing local teens.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Aug. 2026
The process transfers the quantum state of one particle to another through quantum entanglement without physically moving the particle itself.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 July 2026