Open
Open verb - Make available.
Usage example: This opens up new possibilities
Yield
Yield verb - To give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Every dungeon is full of puzzles that yield random switches that open gates; the gates won't open without hitting all the switches in a particular order, for example, or lighting all the torches.
Source: Solve the Soup Cans - This is about the same explosive yield as an old M-80 firecracker; it wouldn't be enough to blow open a locked wooden door, let alone excavate a crater.
Source: Literature / The Forever War -
They yield high quality illegal data if you can beat them, and defeating a certain number of them is also required to open some doors.
Source: Metal Slime
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Yield and Open. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/open/yield
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Yield or Open. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/open/yield.
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