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Antonyms for yielded
| 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
- 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
Synonyms for yielded
- abandon
- abdicate
- accede
- accept
- accrue
- acknowledge
- acquiesce
- admit
- admit defeat
- afford
- agree
- allow
- assent
- back down
- beam
- bear
- bend
- blossom
- bow
- break
- bring forth
- bring in
- buy
- call it quits
- capitulate
- cave in
- cede
- collapse
- come to terms
- comply
- concede
- concur
- consent
- crumple
- defer
- discharge
- earn
- fail
- fit in
- fold
- fold up
- furnish
- generate
- give
- give off
- give oneself over
- give up
- give way
- go
- go along with
- go with the flow
- hand over
- hold out
- knuckle
- knuckle under
- lay down arms
- leave
- let go
- net
- offer
- part with
- pay
- permit
- play the game
- proffer
- provide
- relax
- relent
- relinquish
- resign
- return
- sag
- sell for
- submit
- succumb
- suffer defeat
- supply
- surrender
- tender
- throw in the towel
- toe the line
- toe the mark
- turn out
- waive
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