Antonyms for yoke
yoʊkyoke

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1. yokenoun

   Synonyms:
   control wheel

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1. yoke

   Synonyms:
   couple, conjoin, connect, link, enslave, subjugate

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Husbandry
   • Attach
   • Connection
   • Fabric
   • Join
   • Oppression
   • Pair
   • Support
   • Two

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1. yokenoun

   fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment

   Antonyms:
   unyoke

   Synonyms:
   brace, span, twosome, pair, couplet, distich, duad, duet, couple, dyad, coupling, duo, twain

2. yokenoun

   an oppressive power

   "under the yoke of a tyrant"; "they threw off the yoke of domination"

   Antonyms:
   unyoke

   Synonyms:
   brace, span, twosome, pair, couplet, distich, duad, duet, couple, dyad, coupling, duo, twain

3. couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duadnoun

   two items of the same kind

   Antonyms:
   unyoke

   Synonyms:
   pas de deux, duad, bitstock, bracing, orthodontic braces, coupling, bridge, pair, gallus, duet, dyad, twosome, couplet, match, mates, suspender, braces, straddle, brace, twain, duette, couple, span, duo, distich

4. yokenoun

   a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke

   "pulled by a yoke of oxen"

   Antonyms:
   unyoke

   Synonyms:
   brace, span, twosome, pair, couplet, distich, duad, duet, couple, dyad, coupling, duo, twain

5. yokenoun

   support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end

   Antonyms:
   unyoke

   Synonyms:
   brace, span, twosome, pair, couplet, distich, duad, duet, couple, dyad, coupling, duo, twain

6. yoke, couplingnoun

   a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together

   Antonyms:
   unyoke

   Synonyms:
   conjugation, pairing, duad, brace, coupling, pair, union, duet, dyad, twosome, coupler, couplet, sexual union, mating, twain, couple, span, duo, distich

7. yokeverb

   stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team

   Antonyms:
   unyoke

   Synonyms:
   brace, span, twosome, pair, couplet, distich, duad, duet, couple, dyad, coupling, duo, twain

8. yokeverb

   become joined or linked together

   Antonyms:
   unyoke

   Synonyms:
   link

9. yoke, linkverb

   link with or as with a yoke

   "yoke the oxen together"

   Antonyms:
   unyoke

   Synonyms:
   unite, link, tie in, colligate, relate, tie, join, connect, associate, link up

10. yokeverb

    put a yoke on or join with a yoke

    "Yoke the draft horses together"

    Antonyms:
    unyoke

    Synonyms:
    link

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1. yokenoun

   Synonyms:
   oxbow and bar, crosspiece, team, span, pair, couple, bond, link, chain, coupling

2. yokeverb

   Synonyms:
   couple, join, unite, link, hitch together, subject, enslave

How to use yoke in a sentence?

1. Fahrettin Altun:

   Turkey has no ambition in northeastern Syria except to neutralize a long-standing threat against Turkish citizens and to liberate the local population from the yoke of armed thugs.

2. Émile Durkheim:

   Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

3. Ilona:

   Life isn't easy. And everybody have their own yoke, suffer and pain. Do not think that only you have the hardest life on this earth.

4. Matthew Prior:

   Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

5. Emmanuel Macron:

   These allied forces that together freed us from the German yoke, and from tyranny, are the same ones that were able to build the existing multilateral structures after World War Two, we must not repeat history, and remind ourselves what was built on the basis of the war.

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