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yield to

When people comply, defer or surrender, they yield to a person or circumstance.

  • Unable to resist his daughter’s pleading gaze, Frank yielded to her request.
  • I will yield to your better judgment.
  • The decimated force finally yielded the garrison to the assailants.
  • Senator Sheila Finestone said, "I yield the floor to Senator James Kelleher."