to yield
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4.3
- verb
- /jiːld/
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- During the negotiation, he realized he had to yield to their terms to reach an agreement.
- yield to pressure
- yield to temptation
- yield to demands
My mother said, Joey, never bow, never bend, never yield, never.
- My mother said, Joey, never bow, never bend, never yield, never.
- The message is clear, yield or suffer.
- And the last thing I'll tell you is this, don't yield.
- It might never yield to any kind of research strategy.
- Science will always yield to devotion and firmness above all else.
- And he goes on and he says reason has been obliged to yield.
- While the war is far from settled, multiple truces come and go, neither side yielding.
- Well, Ukraine will not yield and the United Kingdom will never walk away.
- It's beyond my intellect and I and I and we start to yield.
- But if the hardness finds that softness, that softness is able to yield that hardness and transmutate and redirect that energy.
Examples
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Managing that will require it to yield some of the territory that it has claimed since the 1930s.
Academic text (2017) -
Well, Ukraine will not yield and the United Kingdom will never walk away.
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The message is clear, yield or suffer.
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I do not yield to the power of Rome!
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Will the senator yield for a question?
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Do you accept or yield?
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Though we stare famine in the face, we will not yield.
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Benazir, therefore, was compelled to yield to the army in matters of strategy.
Academic text (1991) -
You will yield!
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I will not yield!
Synonyms
∞
3.5
To stop being strong and bend or break under pressure
722
4.4
To stop fighting and give control or things to someone else, often when forced
363
2.3
To hand a job or control you have to someone else
331
3.8
To admit that something is true, often reluctantly
291
3.3
To give a person or thing to the police
220
3.0
To stop resisting and agree to what others want
187
4.1
To accept another person's control, often against your wishes
71
6.7
To give in to pressure or demands
69
5.8
Fail to resist a strong feeling or pressure and give in
69
7.2
To give up control, a right, or something you own
49
3.3
Become more willing to change your mind
43
7.0
To accept something you tried to refuse
39
8.2
To officially give control, ownership or rights to someone else
35
4.2
Break or fail because of pressure
31
5.8
To stop resisting and allow something to happen, like a person giving in or a storm easing
23
8.4
To stop fighting back and accept defeat or demands
20
8.4
To accept something you do not want without complaining
13
5.5
To give something to another person or group against your will
5
7.6
To give in to pressure or demands from others
4
8.4
To give in to pressure or someone in charge even if you do not want to
4
4.0
To stop trying and accept that you lost
3
4.9
To accept less than you want in a discussion to reach an agreement
2
6.7
To give in to pressure even though you do not want to
2
8.4
To give in to pressure or criticism
1
7.4
Give something to another person because you are forced to do so
To give in easily when under pressure
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.3
A loan to a company that pays high interest because it has high risk
How Willing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yield comes from old English gieldan 'to give', and it grew the meaning 'give way' or 'stop resisting', which is why we say a door or material 'yields' under pressure.