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YIELD UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yield up mean? 

YIELD UP (verb)
  The verb YIELD UP has 1 sense:

1. surrender, as a result of pressure or forceplay

  Familiarity information: YIELD UP used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


YIELD UP (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Surrender, as a result of pressure or force

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "yield up" is one way to...):

cede; deliver; give up; surrender (relinquish possession or control over)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody


 Context examples 


And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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