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1. Inclined to yield to argument or influence or control
   "a timid yielding person"
    
2. Lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure
   "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"
    
3. Tending to give in or surrender or agree
   "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"

1. A verbal act of admitting defeat
   - giving up, surrender
    
2. The act of conceding or yielding
   - concession, conceding

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

Derived forms: yieldings

See also: compromising, conciliatory, docile, flexible, soft, yielder, yieldingly

Type of: accept, acquiescence, agree, assent, 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, kick the bucket, make, move, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, produce, provide, pull in, realise [Brit], realize, relinquishing, relinquishment, render, snuff it, stretch, supply, take in

Antonym: stand

Encyclopedia: Yield