yield vs buy the farm

buy the farm vs yield

yield is a noun but buy the farm is not a noun.

yield and buy the farm both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
yield	Yes	No	Yes	No
buy the farm	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, buy the farm is a hypernym of yield; that is, buy the farm is a word with a broader meaning than yield:

yield: be fatally overwhelmed
buy the farm: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Other hypernyms of yield include cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.

yield (noun)	buy the farm (noun)
production of a certain amount
an amount of a product
the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

yield (verb)	buy the farm (verb)
end resistance, as under pressure or force	pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
consent reluctantly
be willing to concede
cease opposition; stop fighting
be flexible under stress of physical force
give or supply
cause to happen or be responsible for
move in order to make room for someone for something
bring in
give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
be the cause or source of
give in, as to influence or pressure
be fatally overwhelmed

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