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| Yield | Yield \Yield\, v. i. 1. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb. [1913 Webster] He saw the fainting Grecians yield. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request. [1913 Webster] 3. To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded. [1913 Webster] Will ye relent, And yield to mercy while 't is offered you? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing. [1913 Webster] Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields The thistle springs, to which the lily yields? --Pope. [1913 Webster] |
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