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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Hoyt assigns his Cavalry reenactors to pick Native American chiefs and give presentations on them.

Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
Hashing is a term that applies to the practice of passing passwords through a one-way cryptographic algorithm that assigns a long string of characters that’s unique for each unique input of plaintext.

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024

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