All 6 Uses of
yield
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- It cracked loudly as it yielded to her unblemished incisors, and there was revealed the white edge of the sugar shell, and the dark chocolate beneath it.
Chpt 1 *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- She had dreams in which she ran like this, then tilted forward, spread her arms and, yielding to faith—the only difficult part, but easy enough in sleep—left the ground by simply stepping off it, and swooped low over hedges and gates and roofs, then hurtled upward and hovered exultantly below the cloud base, above the fields, before diving down again.
Chpt 1yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- Briony was on her knees, trying to put her arms round Lola and gather her to her, but the body was bony and unyielding, wrapped tight about itself like a seashell.†
Chpt 1unyielding = 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.
- Briony supposed she should get her cousin home, but she was reluctant to break this closeness for the moment—she had her arms around the older girl's shoulders and she seemed to yield now to Briony's touch.†
Chpt 1 *yield = give
- In the days to come she would be given no choice and when she finally yielded up her own account of what happened in the library—in its way, far more shocking than Briony's, however consensual the encounter had been—it merely confirmed the general view that had formed: Mr. Turner was a dangerous man.†
Chpt 1yielded up = produced or showed
- He rolled onto his side, eyes fixed and unseeing, and indulged a cinema fantasy: she pounded against his lapels before yielding with a little sob to the safe enclosure of his arms and letting herself be kissed; she didn't forgive him, she simply gave up.†
Chpt 1
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)