yielding

[ yeel-ding ]

/ ˈyil dɪŋ /

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adjective

inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.

tending to give way, especially under pressure; flexible; supple; pliable: a yielding mattress.

(of a crop, soil, etc.) producing a yield; productive.

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Origin of yielding

1300–50; Middle English: owing; see yield, -ing²

OTHER WORDS FROM yielding

yield·ing·ly, adverbyield·ing·ness, nounnon·yield·ing, adjectiveun·yield·ing, adjective

Words nearby yielding

Yiddishism, Yiddishkeit, yield, yieldability, yieldable, yielding, yield management, yield point, yield strength, yield stress, yield to maturity

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How to use yielding in a sentence

Mechanization drove down labor costs, which made marginally yielding lands profitable.
Why I’m a proud solutionist|Jason Crawford|July 13, 2021|MIT Technology Review
On its first day of trading, Alibaba shares were up 38 percent, yielding a market capitalization of $213 billion.
Alibaba’s Dark Side: Censoring Customers|Brendon Hong|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One such pessimist was the Mayor* of the town: A little while later, yielding to his vapors, he committed suicide.
The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire|H.L. Mencken|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With surveillance footage yielding more and more details, police say the search area is continually expanding.
Person of Interest Identified in Disappearance of UVA Student Hannah Graham|Julia Horowitz|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In the case of Flight 17 the wreck is already yielding a lot of information.
MH17 Is the World’s First Open-Source Air Crash Investigation|Clive Irving|July 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They are yielding new insights into the way the shock front propagates in these really complex environments.
How a Thumb-Sized Gauge Is Revolutionizing Traumatic Brain Injuries|Brian Castner|March 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yielding to the advice of his friends, he put on it a price the amount of which abashed him.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
More foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
My own yielding folly alone is to blame, and I shall take shame to myself for ever.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
A trap-like compound, with somewhat the aspect of serpentine, but yielding with difficulty to the knife.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
Many a time and oft had she pleaded, with tears, to the remorseless girl who looked so soft and yielding.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)|Charles James Wills

British Dictionary definitions for yielding

yielding

/ (ˈjiːldɪŋ) /

adjective

compliant, submissive, or flexible

pliable or softa yielding material

Derived forms of yielding

yieldingly, adverbyieldingness, noun

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