yield
YEELDverbMeaning to give way to pressure, to another person or to traffic
Memory hook YIELD: let them go FIRST. Dev stops his bike and waits while a line of ducks waddles across the path. He yields to the ducks.
Drivers must yield to people in the crosswalk.
In context For an hour the rusty gate held firm, but at last it yielded to the farmer’s shoulder and creaked open.
Similar give way, give in, surrender, submit
Opposite resist, withstand, hold out
From Old English gieldan, “to pay, to give back.”