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1. Be the cause or source of
   - give, afford
    
2. End resistance, as under pressure or force
   "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"
   - give way
    
3. Give or supply
   "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"
   - render, return, give, generate
    
4. Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
   - concede, cede, grant
    
5. Give in, as to influence or pressure
   - relent, soften
    
6. Move in order to make room for someone for something
   - move over, give way, give, ease up
    
7. Cause to happen or be responsible for
   - give
    
8. Be willing to concede
   - concede, grant
    
9. Be fatally overwhelmed
   - succumb
    
10. Bring in
    - pay, bear
     
11. Be flexible under stress of physical force
    - give
     
12. Cease opposition; stop fighting
     
13. Consent reluctantly
    - give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under

1. Production of a certain amount
   - output
    
2. The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
   - return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, payoff
    
3. An amount of a product
   - fruit
    
4. The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
   - output, production

Derived forms: yielding, yields, yielded

See also: yielder, yielding

Type of: accept, agree, bring in, buy the farm [N. Amer], cash in one's chips, change, choke, clear, concord, concur, conk, consent, create, croak, decease, die, drop dead, earn, exit, expire, furnish, gain, give, give-up the ghost, go, go for, hold, income, indefinite quantity, kick the bucket, make, move, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, produce, product, production, provide, pull in, realise [Brit], realize, render, snuff it, stretch, supply, take in

Antonym: stand

Encyclopedia: Yield