Synonyms of yoke

yoke 1 of 2

noun

ˈyōk 

as in slavery

the state of being an enslaved person

a people able at last to throw off the yoke and to embrace freedom

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slavery
• bondage
• thraldom
• servitude
• enslavement
• servility
• thralldom
• thrall
• serfdom
• captivity
• subjugation
• subjection
• peonage
• dependance
• dependence
• imprisonment
• incarceration
• enchainment

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• freedom
• liberty
• liberation
• emancipation
• enfranchisement
• independence
• sovereignty
• autonomy
• manumission
• sovranty
• self-government

yoke

2 of 2

verb

as in to connect

to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole

yoked several ideas together to come up with a new theory

Synonyms & Similar Words

• connect
• string
• couple
• integrate
• link
• hook
• interconnect
• chain
• compound
• hitch
• combine
• conjugate
• cord
• join
• concatenate
• weld
• wire
• interlock
• interlink
• dovetail
• catenate
• fuse
• intermesh
• cement
• articulate
• unite
• coalesce

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• separate
• disconnect
• split
• unhitch
• divide
• uncouple
• disunite
• detach
• part
• disengage
• unyoke
• dissever
• unchain
• disjoin
• sever
• unlink
• disjoint
• cleave
• rupture
• sunder

Examples of yoke in a Sentence

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Noun

The interior is minimalistic and airy, with a single knob in the center console—presumably for park, forward, and reverse—and instead of a usual steering wheel, there's a yoke for what AFEELA personnel described as an uninhibited view of the instrument cluster screen. —Peter Nelson, Ars Technica, 2 May 2024

Hopefully, the production version will come with a steering wheel instead of this yoke. —Peter Nelson, Ars Technica, 2 May 2024

Verb

McConnell insisted that the United States deliver military aid to Ukraine be yoked to immigration reforms — then, under pressure from Trump, folded like a T-shirt and voted to kill the deal. —New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2024

Firing at distant targets isn’t the only application the sight may be yoked to. —Eric Tegler, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024