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Grammar : Verb
Spell : yeeld
Phonetic Transcription : yild



Definition of yielded

Origin :
  • Old English gield "payment, sum of money" (see yield (v.)); extended sense of "production" (as of crops) is first attested mid-15c. Earliest English sense survives in financial "yield from investments."
  • verb produce
  • verb give in, surrender
  • verb grant, allow
Example sentences :
  • She put on the boy's torn straw hat, and they yielded to her wish.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • The man who had saved her from death had yielded to temptation.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • By some accident, it had been left unhasped, and yielded easily to her hand.
  • Extract from : « The Wives of The Dead » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • At length he yielded, and I got into the locker, where I was covered with potatoes.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • He, therefore, with a sigh, yielded to his brother's reasonings.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • I didn't want them to go in for this thing, but when you said it would be all right, I yielded.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • The most hopeless of humours assailed him, and he yielded to it without a struggle.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Visibly he lost importance as he yielded and dived into his pocket.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Slowly and reluctantly I yielded to the fascinations of Florence Lascelles.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He yielded not; adamantine to the seductive lure, he picked up his heels and ran.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

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