Showing Results for "yielded"

yielded

VERB

produce

Synonyms

STRONGEST

allow bring in earn generate give offer pay provide supply

STRONG

accrue admit afford beam bear blossom discharge furnish net proffer return tender

WEAK

bring forth give off hold out sell for turn out

Antonyms

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deny hold keep lose refuse take withhold withstand

WEAK

counter disallow disapprove oppose prevent reject veto

VERB

give in, surrender

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bow buy capitulate give up give way leave succumb

STRONG

abandon abdicate bend break cede collapse crumple defer fold go knuckle relax relent relinquish resign sag submit

WEAK

admit defeat back down call it quits cave in come to terms fold up give oneself over hand over knuckle under lay down arms let go part with suffer defeat throw in the towel

Antonyms

STRONGEST

defend fight

STRONG

agree assert build hide hold increase keep retain rise stay straighten

WEAK

counter deny disallow disapprove oppose prevent refuse reject veto withhold

VERB

grant, allow

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accept agree bow concede fail surrender

STRONG

accede acknowledge acquiesce admit assent break comply concur consent defer permit waive

WEAK

fit in go along with go with the flow play the game toe the line toe the mark

Antonyms

STRONGEST

contradict decline disagree dispute dissent fight refuse reject repudiate win

STRONG

deny differ disallow disapprove object oppose protest

WEAK

counter prevent veto withhold

Example Sentences

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Yielded his family's privacy for years, maybe for the rest of their lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

God of wisdom! hath the sea Yielded its dead to humble me?

From Complete Poetical Works by Harte, Bret

Yielded 3 1 57 7 1⁄2 6 in 2 hrs.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney

Here I have been, nor has the task been light, Holding all Erin's warriors at bay: No foot of ground have I in recreant flight Yielded to any man or shunned the fray.

From Poems by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

For humankind, o'er wearied with a life Fostered by force, was ailing from its feuds; And so the sooner of its own free will Yielded to laws and strictest codes.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery