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Definition
to give in, give way, or give up
- When I took it to bed, its hard unyielding limbs resisted my flesh—the tapered fingertips on those dimpled hands scratched.2 — Autumn (23% in)
- It never occurred to either of us that the earth itself might have been unyielding.1 — Beginning (85% in)
- What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and the unyielding earth.1 — Beginning (94% in)
There are no more uses of "yield" in The Bluest Eye.
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