yielded up

Relinquished to another

Yielded up is a somewhat literary or emphatic form of yielded, meaning surrendered, gave over, or relinquished.

The "up" intensifies the sense of release or completion: The fortress yielded up its defenders, The earth yielded up its secrets.

It often suggests something reluctantly or finally given: After hours of interrogation, he yielded up the names.

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relinquished · parted with · immolated · dedicated · succumbed · offered · devoted · entrusted · coughed up · bestowed · committed · ceded · forfeited · signed away · sacrificed · disgorged · transmitted · abdicated

Opposites
surrender/retention

yielded upwithheld

Kept from giving

retained · kept · held onto · held back · kept back

revelation/concealment

yielded upconcealed

Made invisible deliberately

hid · suppressed · covered up · buried · obscured

resistance/submission

yielded upresisted

Refused to yield

held out · refused · defied · defended · fought for

Family

yield, yielded, yielding, yields, unyielding

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