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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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... Christ." Home-sickness comes, wave upon wave, and all but sweeps the soul away; feelings and longings asleep in the child awake in the girl, and draw her and woo her, and blind her too often to all that yielding means. She forgets the under-side of the life she has forsaken; she remembers only the alluring; and all that is natural pleads within her, and will not let her rest. "Across the will of Nature leads on the path of God," is sternly true for the convert in a Hindu ...

— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael

... tacitly implicated in his displeasure. Grieved that he could doubt her affection, or the rectitude of her heart, and relying confidently on the purity of both, she resolved not to wound the Count's feelings, by yielding to an ungenerous prejudice, and her conduct and ...

— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney

... interviewed the imperial authorities on the subject, but no practical results were obtained until federation became an accomplished fact. Then, at length, the company recognised the necessity of yielding to the pressure that was brought to bear upon them by the British government, at a time when the interests of the empire as well as of the new Dominion demanded the abolition of a monopoly so hostile to the conditions of modern progress in British North America. In 1868 successful ...

— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot

... on her, but there was no yielding in them. The arrogant pride of a strong man, plainly born, was face to face with her appeal. His features were set with ...

— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow

... of God's outdoors for their maneuvers. These Legionaries had nothing but dark pits and runways, unexplored, in the bowels of a huge, fanatic city. Thus, their retreat was harder. But with courage unshaken, they turned their backs on the yielding door, and set their faces toward darkness and ...

— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

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