Make and Yield

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Make verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

Usage example: the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over

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Yield is a synonym for make. In some cases you can use "Yield" instead the word "Make" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: makeup, making, maker

Yield verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

Usage example: the sort of embarrassing question that seldom yields an honest answer

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Make is a synonym for yield. Sometimes you can use "Make" instead the word "Yield" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: yielding, yielded

high	high make	high yield
best	best make	best yield
similar	similar make	similar yield
large	large make	large yield
Other adjectives: useful, generic.

On Virmire, the Salarian STGs make a bomb out of their ship's eezo core with about the same yield as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Source: Going Critical
Later games make this possible if the 200-Megaton bomb's yield is doubled, as well.

Source: Tabletop Game / Nuclear War
He claimed that Joséphine was the only one who could make him yield on anything.

Source: Henpecked Husband

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