yield

To produce or generate a crop, result, profit, or amount of information.

• The fertile valley yields high quantities of wheat every summer.

• Did the latest financial audit yield any useful information?

To give way under physical force or pressure.

• The old wooden floorboards yielded slightly under the heavy safe.

• Synthetic climbing ropes will yield under excessive tension.

To concede, submit, or surrender control to someone or something else.

• After hours of rigorous debate, the committee finally yielded to public pressure.

• The defense attorney refused to yield during cross-examination.

To slow down or stop to let other vehicles or pedestrians proceed first on a road.

• Drivers must yield to oncoming traffic when turning left across an intersection.

• Why didn't that car yield at the pedestrian crosswalk?