verb
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To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
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To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
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To give way; to allow another to pass first.
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Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
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To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
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They refuse to yield to the enemy.
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To give, or give forth, (anything).
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To give way; to succumb to a force.
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To produce as return, as from an investment.
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Historically, that security yields a high return.
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To produce as a result.
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Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
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To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
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Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
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(of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
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To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.