ALL meanings of yielded
yield
Y y - verb with object yielded to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs. 1
- verb with object yielded to produce or furnish (payment, profit, or interest): a trust fund that yields ten percent interest annually; That investment will yield a handsome return. 1
- verb with object yielded to give up, as to superior power or authority: They yielded the fort to the enemy. 1
- verb with object yielded to give up or surrender (oneself): He yielded himself to temptation. 1
- verb with object yielded to give up or over; relinquish or resign: to yield the floor to the senator from Ohio. 1
- verb with object yielded to give as due or required: to yield obedience to one's teachers. 1
- verb with object yielded to cause; give rise to: The play yielded only one good laugh. 1
- verb without object yielded to give a return, as for labor expended; produce; bear. 1
- verb without object yielded to surrender or submit, as to superior power: The rebels yielded after a week. 1
- verb without object yielded to give way to influence, entreaty, argument, or the like: Don't yield to their outrageous demands. 1
- verb without object yielded to give place or precedence (usually followed by to): to yield to another; Will the senator from New York yield? 1
- verb without object yielded to give way to force, pressure, etc., so as to move, bend, collapse, or the like: I've pushed and pushed, but this door will not yield. 1
- noun yielded something yielded. 1
- noun yielded the quantity or amount yielded. 1
- noun yielded the act or process of yielding: the yield of plastic materials under stress. 1
- noun yielded Chemistry. the quantity of product formed by the interaction of two or more substances, generally expressed as a percentage of the quantity obtained to that theoretically obtainable. 1
- noun yielded the income produced by a financial investment, usually shown as a percentage of cost. 1
- noun yielded a measure of the destructive energy of a nuclear explosion, expressed in kilotons of the amount of TNT that would produce the same destruction. 1
- noun yielded Simple past tense and past participle of yield. 1