Yielded

to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation:
this farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
to produce or furnish (payment, profit, or interest):
a trust fund that yields ten percent interest annually; that investment will yield a handsome return.
to give up, as to superior power or authority:
they yielded the fort to the enemy.
to give up or surrender (oneself):
he yielded himself to temptation.
to give up or over; relinquish or resign:
to yield the floor to the senator from ohio.
to give as due or required:
to yield obedience to one’s teachers.
to cause; give rise to:
the play yielded only one good laugh.
to give a return, as for labor expended; produce; bear.
to surrender or submit, as to superior power:
the rebels yielded after a week.
to give way to influence, entreaty, argument, or the like:
don’t yield to their outrageous demands.
to give place or precedence (usually followed by to):
to yield to another; will the senator from new york yield?
to give way to force, pressure, etc., so as to move, bend, collapse, or the like:
i’ve pushed and pushed, but this door will not yield.
something yielded.
the quant-ty or amount yielded.
the act or process of yielding:
the yield of plastic materials under stress.
chemistry. the quant-ty of product formed by the interaction of two or more substances, generally expressed as a percentage of the quant-ty obtained to that theoretically obtainable.
the income produced by a financial investment, usually shown as a percentage of cost.
a measure of the destructive energy of a nuclear explosion, expressed in kilotons of the amount of tnt that would produce the same destruction.
contemporary examples

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can taking aspirin once a day reduce risk of cancer, stroke, and more? anneli rufus march 21, 2012
the sins of the first gulf war geoffrey wawro january 21, 2011
thai election not likely to resolve protests lennox samuels january 31, 2014
how a gop senate can help the poor veronique de rugy november 22, 2014

historical examples

the smuggler chief gustave aimard
folkways william graham sumner
a son of the middle border hamlin garland
reminiscences of the military life and sufferings of col. timothy bigelow, commander of the fifteenth regiment of the m-ssachusetts line in the continental army, during the war of the revolution charles hersey
pharaoh’s broker ellsworth dougl-ss

verb
to give forth or supply (a product, result, etc), esp by cultivation, labour, etc; produce or bear
(transitive) to furnish as a return: the shares yielded three per cent
(transitive) often foll by up. to surrender or relinquish, esp as a result of force, persuasion, etc
(intransitive) sometimes foll by to. to give way, submit, or surrender, as through force or persuasion: she yielded to his superior knowledge
(intransitive) often foll by to. to agree; comply; -ssent: he eventually yielded to their request for money
(transitive) to grant or allow; concede: to yield right of way
(transitive) (obsolete) to pay or repay: g-d yield thee!
noun
the result, product, or amount yielded
the profit or return, as from an investment or tax
the annual income provided by an investment, usually expressed as a percentage of its cost or of its current value: the yield on these shares is 15 per cent at today’s market value
the energy released by the explosion of a nuclear weapon expressed in terms of the amount of tnt necessary to produce the same energy
(chem) the quant-ty of a specified product obtained in a reaction or series of reactions, usually expressed as a percentage of the quant-ty that is theoretically obtainable
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