Giving and transferring
Synonyms for yield
Synonyms for yield: produce, cede, grant and production. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for yield
Interchangeable with yield in this sense
Audited under yield's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one yield carries in that sense.
- produceverb, in the sense "to produce and give forth a crop or return"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name yield as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- cedecede is a verb in the sense "to give up possession or control of something, typically unwillingly"
- grantgrant is a verb in the sense "be willing to concede"
- productionproduction is a noun in the sense "the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under yield and three under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
to produce and give forth a crop or return
Old orchards still yield bushels of apples every autumn.
The true synonym
produce
Same sentence, swapped: Old orchards still produce bushels of apples every autumn.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot yield is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- prune
- water
- harvest
Where yield turns up in the game
yield is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where yield is the trap
- prevailverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is triumph, in the sense "to win out over an opponent in a contest", and yield is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play yield
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so yield reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because giving and transferring is the company yield keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. yield carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.