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yield, submit, capitulate, succumb, relent, defer mean to give way to someone or something that one can no longer resist. yield may apply to any sort or degree of giving way before force, argument, persuasion, or entreaty. yields too easily in any argument.
to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food or information: an attempt to yield increased profits. The investigation yielded some unexpected results. Favourable weather yielded a good crop. Fewer examples. The process yields oil for industrial use.
to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food or information: an attempt to yield increased profits. The investigation yielded some unexpected results. Favourable weather yielded a good crop. Fewer examples. The process yields oil for industrial use.
to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food or information: an attempt to yield increased profits. The investigation yielded some unexpected results. Favourable weather yielded a good crop. Fewer examples. The process yields oil for industrial use.
to give up, as to superior power or authority: They yielded the fort to the enemy. Synonyms: forgo, waive, abdicate, abandon. to give up or surrender (oneself ): He yielded himself to temptation. Antonyms: resist. to give up or over; relinquish or resign: to yield the floor to the senator from Ohio.
To give over possession of, as in deference or defeat; surrender: yielded my seat to the speaker; yielded his sword. b. To give up (an advantage, for example) to another; concede: yielded the right of way to the oncoming traffic.
To yield is to concede under some degree of pressure, but not necessarily to surrender totally: to yield ground to an enemy. To submit is to give up more completely to authority, superior force, etc., and to cease opposition, although usually with reluctance: to submit to control.
[intransitive] (formal) to stop resisting something/somebody; to agree to do something that you do not want to do synonym give way. After a long siege, the town was forced to yield. yield to something/somebody He reluctantly yielded to their demands. I yielded to temptation and had a chocolate bar. Extra Examples. Topics Discussion and agreement c1
Definitions of yield. verb. give or supply. “This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn” synonyms: generate, give, render, return. give. cause to happen or be responsible for. establish, give. bring about. see more. verb. bring in. synonyms: bear, pay. see more. verb. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another.
Yield Definition. To give forth by a natural process, especially by cultivation. A field that yields many bushels of corn. To produce or bear. A mine that has yielded poorly. To produce. To furnish as return for effort or investment; be productive of. An investment that yields a high return.