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yield
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White Fang
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- He experienced two great impulsions—to yield and to fight.†
Part 3 *yield = produce or give
- He yielded till the hand almost touched him.†
Part 3yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Again he yielded to the tying of a thong around his neck by Grey Beaver, and again Beauty Smith came to claim him.†
Part 4 *
- To accomplish the change was like a reflux of being, and this when the plasticity of youth was no longer his; when the fibre of him had become tough and knotty; when the warp and the woof of him had made of him an adamantine texture, harsh and unyielding; when the face of his spirit had become iron and all his instincts and axioms had crystallised into set rules, cautions, dislikes, and desires.†
Part 4unyielding = strict, firm, or hard (not giving in, not giving way, or not giving up)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielding means not and reverses the meaning of yielding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- He yielded to the master's children with an ill but honest grace, and endured their fooling as one would endure a painful operation.†
Part 5yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Time and again the impulse surged over White Fang, and each time, as he yielded to it, he was checked by the master's voice.†
Part 5
- This was her day—and it came not often—when manes bristled, and fang smote fang or ripped and tore the yielding flesh, all for the possession of her.†
Part 2
- And in the business of love the three-year-old, who had made this his first adventure upon it, yielded up his life.†
Part 2
- The substance of the wall seemed as permeable and yielding as light.†
Part 2
- He had travelled a greater distance than the other dogs in the yielding of himself to the rule of the gods, and he had learned more thoroughly the futility of opposing their will.†
Part 3
- Each time that his teeth struck they sank easily into the yielding flesh, while the animal did not seem able to defend itself.†
Part 4
- But the other animals—the squirrels, and quail, and cottontails, were creatures of the Wild who had never yielded allegiance to man.†
Part 5
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)