All 25 Uses
yield
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A Game of Thrones
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- Fingernails dug into unyielding stone.†
p. 85.3unyielding = 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.
- Catelyn struggled to push back the blankets, her bandaged fingers as stiff and unyielding as stone.†
p. 137.9
- I did not wish to offend his lord father, so I yielded.
p. 207.1yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Maester Colemon is like a son to me, and I yield to none in my esteem for his abilities, but he is young, and the young ofttimes do not comprehend the frailty of an older body.†
p. 252.4yield = give in, give way, or give up
- "I yield," he shrilled.
p. 260.7yield = give up (surrender), or give in
- "No more, I yield, don't hit me."
p. 260.7
- He yielded.
p. 261.3yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- "He yielded," he echoed.
p. 261.4
- "I yield," he shouted.
p. 262.5yield = give up (surrender), or give in
- He vows to you that he will yield no foot of Tully land without first watering it with Lannister blood.
p. 432.1 *yield = give
- "Yield!" he called, more than once, but Petyr would only shake his head and fight on, grimly.
p. 440.2yield = surrender (give up)
- The man is iron, hard and unyielding.†
p. 512.1unyielding = 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.
- "…. yield …." he managed to croak faintly.
p. 690.6yield = surrender (give up)
- "Yield," he repeated.
p. 690.7yield = give up (surrender), give in, or give way
- I yield, my lord.
p. 690.8yield = give up (surrender), or give in
- He was the last King in the North and the first Lord of Winterfell, after he yielded to Aegon the Conqueror.
p. 733.4 *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions.†
p. 280.1
- "My father will wonder what has become of me," he added, catching the eye of the swordsman who'd offered to yield up his room.†
p. 327.1
- The kitchen yielded no lemon cakes, but they did find half of a cold strawberry pie, and that was almost as good.†
p. 475.3
- She had given him three daughters and a son, each black-haired No matter how far back Ned searched in the brittle yellowed pages, always he found the gold yielding before the coal.†
p. 486.6
- Jaime told me how you found him on the Iron Throne the day King's Landing fell, and made him yield it up.†
p. 488.6
- With Lord Blackwood gone, Raventree fell at once, and Lady Whent yielded Harrenhal for want of men to defend it.†
p. 612.9
- Do you yield, Lannister?†
p. 690.2
- His sword, his dirk, anything ... "Do you yield?"†
p. 690.3
- "Yield or die," the knight declared, his flail whirling faster and faster.†
p. 690.4
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)