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Yield

noun

1.

Production of a certain amount. Synonym: output.

2.

The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property. Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings.

3.

An amount of a product. Synonym: fruit.

4.

The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time). Synonyms: output, production.

verb

(past & past part. yielded; obs. past part. yold; pres. part. yielding)

1.

Be the cause or source of. Synonyms: afford, give. "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"

2.

End resistance, as under pressure or force. Synonym: give way.

3.

Give or supply. Synonyms: generate, give, render, return. "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn" , "The estate renders some revenue for the family"

4.

Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another. Synonyms: cede, concede, grant.

5.

Give in, as to influence or pressure. Synonyms: relent, soften. Antonym: stand.

6.

Move in order to make room for someone for something. Synonyms: ease up, give, give way, move over. "'Move over,' he told the crowd"

7.

Cause to happen or be responsible for. Synonym: give.

8.

Be willing to concede. Synonyms: concede, grant.

9.

Be fatally overwhelmed. Synonym: succumb. Antonym: survive.

10.

Bring in. Synonyms: bear, pay. "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"

11.

Be flexible under stress of physical force. Synonym: give.

12.

Cease opposition; stop fighting.

13.

Consent reluctantly. Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, succumb.

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"Yield" Quotes from Famous Books

... in friendly sort, His lawful Right to yield; Or else he swore by dint of Sword, To win it ...

— Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 • Various

... The son of her hatred, conceived upon her love; for without love can nothing be created. For all the alarm this child gave her, she has become so well again, is so happily engrossed with this new idol, that she places it straightway upon her altar, to worship it, yield her life up to it, and offer herself up as a living and perfect sacrifice. Very often she will even say to her judge, "There is but one thing I fear; that I shall ...

— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet

... Menecreta realised that her last hope must yield to the inevitable now. Even whilst her accomplice, Hun Rhavas, received the full brunt of the praefect's wrath she had scarcely dared to breathe, scarcely felt that she lived in this agony of fear. Her child still stood there on the platform, ...

— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... of Agriculture later informed me by letter that the top stream only yielded a small supply, but the second stream, struck at 165 feet, augmented the supply that it could not be lowered by the pump more than 35 feet, and that the estimated yield of both streams was 10,000 gallons ...

— Reminiscences of Queensland - 1862-1869 • William Henry Corfield

... twinkling of an eye she reduced Belgium to industrial serfdom. She made the Belgian merchant a business pariah. She reduced the Belgian citizen to a political Helot, and imprisoned the burgomaster of Brussels, who refused to yield his citizenship honors. She made of Belgium a desert. The Belgian woman she whistled at and made a bye-word and reproach. And she called her treaty of Belgian neutrality a mere scrap of paper. Namur fell, and Charleroi and lovely Louvain. Liege succumbed in those hot August ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

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