Ceding Synonyms and Antonyms

To change the ownership of (property) by means of a legal document
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. transferring
  2. conveying
  3. assigning
  4. alienating
  5. granting
  6. deeding
To let (something) go
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. yielding
  2. surrendering
  3. relinquishing
  4. forgoing
  5. abandoning
The act of ceding
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cession

Ceding Sentence Examples

  • He was glad he'd waited for the right partner rather than ceding to his advisors' desire for him to mate just to produce an heir.

  • For a moment he thought of abdicating rather than of ceding Burgundy.

  • In 1780 he outlined the plan which was subsequently adopted by Virginia for ceding to the Federal government her claim to the "back lands," i.e.

  • On the 22nd of May 1200 the treaty was finally signed, John ceding with his niece the fiefs of Issoudun and Gragay, together with those that Andre de Chavigny, lord of Chateauroux, held in Berry, of the English crown.

  • Failing assistance from the imam of Muscat, she accepted French protection in 1840, ceding such rights as she possessed on the N.W.

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