What is the meaning of yielding?

noun

• A verbal act of admitting defeat.
  • synonyms: giving up, surrender
• The act of conceding or yielding.
  • synonyms: concession, conceding

verb

• Be the cause or source of.
  • usage: "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
  • synonyms: yield, give, afford
• End resistance, as under pressure or force.
  • usage: "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"
  • synonyms: give way, yield
• Give or supply.
  • usage: "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1, 000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
  • synonyms: render, yield, return, give, generate
• Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another.
  • synonyms: concede, yield, cede, grant
• Give in, as to influence or pressure.
  • synonyms: yield, relent, soften
• Move in order to make room for someone for something.
  • usage: "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd"
  • synonyms: move over, give way, give, ease up, yield
• Cause to happen or be responsible for.
  • usage: "His two singles gave the team the victory"
  • synonyms: give, yield
• Be willing to concede.
  • usage: "I grant you this much"
  • synonyms: concede, yield, grant
• Be fatally overwhelmed.
  • synonyms: succumb, yield
• Bring in.
  • usage: "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually"
  • synonyms: yield, pay, bear
• Be flexible under stress of physical force.
  • usage: "This material doesn't give"
  • synonyms: give, yield
• Cease opposition; stop fighting.
  • synonyms: yield
• Consent reluctantly.
  • synonyms: yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under

adjective

• Inclined to yield to argument or influence or control.
  • usage: "a timid yielding person"
• Lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure.
  • usage: "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"
• Tending to give in or surrender or agree. "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments- V. I. Parrington