yielded
- 1Simple past and past participle of yield.
After hours of negotiation, the union yielded on several key demands.
The investment yielded a modest return over five years.
Note
A regular -ed form, so one spelling covers both the simple past (the soil yielded richly) and the participle after have or be (had yielded, was yielded). Only the transitive meanings make a passive: the fortress was yielded, the profits were yielded. The intransitive giving-in, as when a union yielded on its demands, pairs only with have: by evening it had yielded.
yielded is a form of yield
yield, verb: To produce or provide something as a result, outcome, or return, such as information, a crop, a profit, or, in linguistics, a later sound. Full entry
- Spelling
- yield → yielded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with yielded, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.