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Yielding   /jˈildɪŋ/   Listen
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



... looking over the various costly gifts which have been, from time to time, presented by foreign potentates to the distinguished public servants of America, all of which are here collected; the law not permitting those on whom they were bestowed to retain them, although yielding to the custom which has rendered such marks of courtly approbation customary amongst ...
— Impressions of America - During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Tyrone Power

... people. He would think they were forcing this marriage upon her—the mother out of love of Pete, the father out of love of Pete's money, and Nancy out of fear of Ross Christian. He would know that she could not struggle because she could not speak. He would believe she was yielding against her will, in spite of her love, in the teeth of their intention. He would think of her as a victim, as a martyr, ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine

... perceived that the hardest head, struck evenly on both sides at the same moment, must suffer approximately as much as if jammed against the door-post and catched full with a fair round swing. Whereas had these blows followed one another on a yielding head, the injury it inflicted as a battering-ram might have outweighed the damage it received in inflicting it. As it was, Peter—so Uncle Moses called the Sweep—was for one moment defenceless, being preoccupied in seizing his opponent ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... on a run, and the agent and I followed on the double-quick. At the end of a crooked stone wall, half surrounded by water, was a great spreading oak, its branches reaching half way across the narrow marsh. Within touching distance of the yielding ground stood Chad pointing to a smooth blaze, ...
— Colonel Carter of Cartersville • F. Hopkinson Smith

... his form. His beauty is not of a pure Greek type. Though perfectly proportioned and developed by gymnastic exercises to the true athletic fulness, his limbs are round and florid, suggesting the possibility of early over-ripeness. The muscles are not trained to sinewy firmness, but yielding and elastic; the chest is broad and singularly swelling; and the shoulders are placed so far back from the thorax that the breasts project beyond them in a massive arch. It has been asserted that one shoulder is slightly lower than the other. ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds


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