All 11 Uses
yield
in
Educated, by Tara Westover
(Edited)
- But reality had never yielded to my thoughts before.
p. 82.4yielded = given in
- But feral horses don't yield easily, not even to a man like Grandpa.
p. 98.8yield = give in (surrender)
- Then the logic of the page yields to my father.
p. 128.3yields = gives way
- I'd thought she would be glad to see me yield to God.
p. 133.9yield = give in (surrender)
- My body convulsed, yielding to a strange, potent instinct.
p. 173.1yielding = giving way
- The problems were compliant, pliable; they yielded to my manipulations, forming into solutions, one after the other.
p. 191.6yielded = gave way
- A voice declared this with unyielding finality; the declaration made me tremble.
p. 246.8unyielding = strict (unbending)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.
- I don't know why I asked her to wait, what benefit I thought time would yield.
p. 270.1 *yield = produce
- I was ready to yield, even if it meant an exorcism.
p. 300.1yield = give in (surrender)
- All I had to do was yield, and in five minutes it would be over.
p. 302.9
- If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind.
p. 304.6 *
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)