Stop and Yield

Stop

Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.

Yield and stop are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Yield" instead a verb "Stop".

Nearby Words: stopped, stopper, stopping, stopover

Yield

Yield verb - To give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit).

Stop and yield are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Stop" instead a verb "Yield".

Nearby Words: yielding, yielded

How words are described

full full stop full yield
best best stop best yield
strong strong stop strong yield
entire entire stop entire yield
Other adjectives: final.

Common collocations

someone stop someone yield someone
time stop time yield time
game stop game yield game
monster stop monster yield monster
Other words: car, weapon, monsters.

Both words in one sentence

  • Blog / Ask Twixie Genies Even as the conflict with the Djinn he started devastated his kingdom and the Djinn pleaded with him to stop repeatedly, he was too prideful to yield.
  • Ominous Latin Chanting When they say that the pestilence won't stop "until you break/until you yield," you believe it.
  • Film / Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Stop Drowning and Stand Up: Robin and Little have this conversation after they're both knocked into the water after a quarterstaff battle;Robin of Locksley: Do you yield?
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