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English
Etymology
From dis- + yoke.
Pronunciation
Verb
disyoke (third-person singular simple present disyokes, present participle disyoking, simple past and past participle disyoked)
- (transitive, poetic) To free (someone or something) from a yoke; to disjoin, to unyoke.
1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page 30:Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man.
1875, Robert Browning, “Herakles”, in Aristophanes’ Apology , London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , →OCLC, page 319:O me, my wife, my boys— / And—O myself, how, miserably moved, / Am I disyoked now from both boys and wife!