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Yielding

adjective

1.

Inclined to yield to argument or influence or control.

2.

Lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure.

3.

Tending to give in or surrender or agree.

noun

1.

A verbal act of admitting defeat. Synonyms: giving up, surrender.

2.

The act of conceding or yielding. Synonyms: conceding, concession.

Yield

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.

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.

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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"Yielding" Quotes from Famous Books

... land cultivable as paddies should be wasted. This intensely developed countryside was not however ideal land. It was often much too sandy. Not a few paddies had to depend to some extent on the water they could catch for themselves. A naturally draughty and hungry land was yielding crops by a laborious manurial improvement of its physical and chemical condition, by wonders being wrought in rural hydraulics and by unending industry ...

— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

... his heart; Madame Rochette assured her that she had a fortune in her throat whenever she chose to seek it; persons she had never seen and who did not know her name, pressed her hands fervently, saying that her singing was adorable. All cried "Encore," "Encore!" and, yielding to the pleasure of applause, she thought no more of the flight of time. Dawn was peeping through the windows ...

— Jacqueline, Complete • (Mme. Blanc) Th. Bentzon

... rein and faced the Squire with a solemnity presently yielding to his natural desire to grin at any form of joke, and his belief that when the Squire indulged such flagrant irreverence as this he must be joking. Yet he answered evasively: "You hearn't he says now he hain't ...

— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells

... then, I will. I'll give it to you straight. You know quite well that you have let your father bully you since you were in short frocks. I don't say it is your fault or his fault, or anybody's fault; I just state it as a fact. It's temperament, I suppose. You are yielding and he is aggressive; and he ...

— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... inflam'd. He touch'd her hand; in touching it she trembled: Love deeply grounded, hardly is dissembled. These lovers parled by the touch of hands: True love is mute, and oft amazed stands. Thus while dumb signs their yielding hearts entangled, The air with sparks of living fire was spangled; And Night, deep-drench'd in misty Acheron, Heav'd up her head, and half the world upon Breath'd darkness forth (dark night is Cupid's day): And now begins Leander to ...

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