Crossword clues for ceding
ceding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cede \cede\ (s[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. ceded; p. pr. & vb. n. ceding.] [L. cedere to withdraw, yield; akin to cadere to fall, and to E. chance; cf. F. c['e]der.] To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.
The people must cede to the government some of their
natural rights.
--Jay.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cede English)
WordNet
n. the act of ceding [syn: cession]
Usage examples of "ceding".
After four years of captivity, Comte d’Eu regained his liberty, supposedly in exchange for ceding to Edward his strategic castle and county of Guines, adjoining Calais.
The oath bound them to work diligently for union of the Church “without fraud, deceit or machination whatsoever,” and sincerely to examine without excuse or delay all possible ways to that goal “even to the point of ceding the papacy, if necessary.
Neither ceding, they lived in hostility, each in a separate castle of the domain with her captains and entourage of relatives, each pursuing lawsuits.
It gave hima lot of pleasure to think that someone who'd been raised in an unpainted shack with a bare light bulb dangling from the ceding could kick off his boots and sprawl on the couch in a fancy place like this.
Now chunks of plastr were falling from the ceding like ice rock from an avalanche.
If she had Scotch tape, she could forgo eating and just tape the stuff directly on her hips and thighs, ceding to the inevitable.
Any violation of that will result in the unconditional ceding of the world to the Klingons.
Aristotle’s painting of the ceding of the island was part of the bet, don’t you remember?
So Dean left the Church of the Proper Fork because the Episcopal Church in Montpelier hesitated before ceding some of its land for a bike path.