yield

Speech parts

1. yield - Noun

2. yield - Verb

Meaning

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.

To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.

To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.

To give a reward to; to bless.

To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.

To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.

To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.

To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.

Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

return cede succumb relent give way give in give produce bear supply generate grant surrender render submit
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Antonyms

stand coventry ambo have take control
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Hypernyms

concord make production provide change create

Hyponyms

provide allow open clear fall leave

Phrases with the word

yield up yield curve yield stress yield strength yield point yield to

Derivatives

yielded yold yielding

Anagrams

Leidy ylide lydie

Examples

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

At a dangerous passage yield precedence. Italian Proverb

Though the palm tree in the jungle is big, who knows how big its yield will be? Liberia Proverb

The barrel can only yield the wine that's in it. Corsican Proverb

Close letter words and terms

yidishkayt yidishkeyt Yidu yield back yield burning yield co