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Yawn.Open wide, gape; desire, be eager.

Ant.Close, shut, engulf.

Yearly.Annual, happening each year, per annum, every year, year by year.

Ant.Perennial, everlasting, evergreen.

Yearn.Long, desire, be eager, covet, crave, hanker.

Ant.Loathe, revolt, recoil, shudder at, despise.

Yell,v.Cry out, shriek, scream, holler.

Ant.Keep silence, subdue, silence.

Yet.Besides, nevertheless, notwithstanding, however, still, eventually, ultimately, at last, so far, thus far, hitherto, at present; over and above; further; now.

Yield.Furnish, produce, afford, bear, render; relinquish, give in, let go, forego; accede, acquiesce; resign, surrender, concede, allow, grant, submit, succumb; comply, consent, agree.

Ant.Withdraw, withhold, retain, deny, refuse, vindicate, assert, claim, disallow, appropriate, resist, dissent, protest, struggle, strive.

Yielding.Conceding, producing, surrendering, supple, pliant, submissive, unresisting, obsequious, attentive, flexible, compliant, accommodating.

Ant.Defiant, resisting, obstinate, firm, stiff, hard, perverse.

Yoke,n.Bond, chain, link, tie; servitude, bondage, vassalage, service, thraldom, subjection, subservience.

Ant.Freedom, liberty; authority, command.

Yoke,v.Couple, conjoin, connect, link; enslave, subjugate.

Ant.Dissever, divorce, disconnect, liberate, release, manumit, enfranchise.

Young.Juvenile, immature; inexperienced, innocent, ignorant; youthful, boyish, girlish, childlike.

Ant.Old, mature, adult; experienced, knowing; senile, aged, decrepit, venerable; antique, antiquated, obsolete; superannuated.

Youth.Adolescence, childhood, infancy; youthfulness, juvenility; minority; lad, boy, girl, youngster.

Ant.Age, senility, maturity.

Youthful.Puerile, juvenile, immature, young, fresh, vigorous, unripe, callow, childish, boyish, childlike, girlish, adolescent.

Ant.Mature, adult, full-grown, ripe, ripened.


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