Fire
Fire verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.
Yield
Yield verb - To give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit).
How words are described
| high | high fire | high yield |
| full | full fire | full yield |
| normal | normal fire | normal yield |
| heavy | heavy fire | heavy yield |
| Other adjectives: large, combined, final, magical, nuclear. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Ascended Glitch: Manually Button Mashing the fire button in Darius Gaiden will yield a much faster rate of fire than the built-in autofire.
Source: Video Game / Darius -
Most ships are armed with relatively low-yield weapons (for sci-fi space warfare) with incredibly high rates of fire.
Source: More Dakka - During the 1950s the United States developed the Davy Crockett recoilless rifle which can fire low-yield nukes (think the Fat Man launcher from Video Game/Fallout and you get the picture).
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Yield or Fire. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fire/yield.
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