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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.