survive vs yield

survive

verb
  • To live past a life-threatening event. 

  • Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive. 

  • Of an object or concept, to continue to exist. 

  • To be a victim of usually non-fatal harm, to honor and empower the strength of an individual to heal, in particular a living victim of sexual abuse or assault. 

  • Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league. 

  • To live longer than; to outlive. 

yield

verb
  • To give way; to succumb to a force. 

  • To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. 

  • To produce as a result. 

  • To give, or give forth, (anything). 

  • To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law. 

  • To produce as return, as from an investment. 

  • To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate. 

  • To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation. 

  • To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. 

  • To give way; to allow another to pass first. 

noun
  • Profit earned from an investment; return on investment. 

  • A product; the quantity of something produced. 

  • The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent. 

  • The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. 

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