Yield, v. i. 1. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
He saw the fainting Grecians yield. Dryden.
2. To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
3. To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.
Will ye relent,
And yield to mercy while 't is offered you? Shak.
4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields
The thistle springs, to which the lily yields? Pope.