Antonyms for yank
yæŋkyank

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. yanknoun

   A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States.

   Synonyms:
   tug, jerk

2. Yanknoun

   A Yankee, an American: someone from the United States.

   They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.

   Synonyms:
   tug, jerk, recall, pull

3. Yanknoun

   Synonyms:
   American

Matched Categories

1. • American
   • Pull

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. Yankee, Yank, Northernernoun

   an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)

2. Yankee, Yank, Yankee-Doodleverb

   an American (especially to non-Americans)

3. yank, jerkverb

   pull, or move with a sudden movement

   "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"

   Synonyms:
   jerk, flick, hitch, twitch, buck

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. yanknoun

   Synonyms:
   pull, jerk, twitch

2. yankverb

   Synonyms:
   pull, jerk, twitch, snatch

How to use yank in a sentence?

1. Frederic Neumann:

   The Fed has got markets by the leash. And this week, it will once more tug and yank.

2. Brian Encinia:

   Step out, or I will remove you, i'm going to yank you out of here.

3. Jamie Ewing:

   I don’t want us to open, be back for a week and then shut it down again. We can’t do that to our kids, they get excited, they get back, they get into a routine and then we’ll yank the rug out from under them again.

4. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu:

   There are all kinds of issues ... one of those is whether we need to yank out the fiscal terms and develop them into a different law relying on existing fiscal laws and amend those.

5. Marine Col. Andrew Milburn:

   No one really without any sense of foresight could say [ Biden ] will yank [ the troops ] out and the Afghan government will not collapse, certainly as military planners, you always have some contingency plan, no matter how unlikely you think an event is to occur.

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