All 4 Uses of
yield
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- With one lunge, I shoot as flat as a fish over the ground; there it whistles again, quickly I crouch together, claw for cover, feel something on the left, shove in beside it, it gives way, I groan, the earth leaps, the blast thunders in my ears, I creep under the yielding thing, cover myself with it, draw it over me, it is wood, cloth, cover, cover, miserable cover against the whizzing splinters.
p. 67.3yielding = easily moved (giving way)
- The next throw whizzes obliquely over the corner and clears a passage; as we run past we toss handfuls down into the dug-outs, the earth shudders, it crashes, smokes and groans, we stumble over slippery lumps of flesh, over yielding bodies; I fall into an open belly on which lies a clean, new officer's cap.
p. 117.5yielding = soft (giving way)
- We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy.
p. 135.1 *yielded = given up
- But I—I am lost in remoteness, in weakness, and in a passion to which I yield myself trustingly.
p. 149.2yield = give up
Definitions:
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(1)
(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2)
(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up