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adjective

as in attached

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verb

past tense of hitch
1
as in yanked
to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion kept hitching up his pants because they were too big in the waist

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2
as in connected
to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole she escaped out the window by using a makeshift rope of bedsheets and clothing she'd hitched together

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3
as in fastened
to put securely in place or in a desired position hitched the trailer to the back of the car

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4
as in hijacked
to travel by securing free rides her brother hitched across the country after he graduated from college

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Recent Examples of hitched
Verb
But Coyote has hitched his hopes for the mammoth case upon a man who could only be called a coward. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026 Looks like an entire orbital launchpad could be hitched to a semi-truck and driven anywhere on Earth, thanks to space launch provider Rocket Lab. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026 Before getting hitched to Greenstein, Porizkova was married to musician Ric Ocasek. — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 17 July 2026 But when her big bro Sherlock (Henry Cavill) goes missing during the festivities, Enola pauses getting hitched to find him and also unearth a military cover-up. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026 With both the bride and groom wearing Christian Dior haute couture and Christian Louboutin shoes, the 14x Grammy winner and 3x Super Bowl champion were hitched within the last half hour at Madison Square Garden in New York City. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 July 2026 Portugal’s megastar hitched his step and converted down the middle as the goalkeeper went to his right. — ABC News, 2 July 2026 Meanwhile, the Ravens have hitched their future to two intriguing, young coaches — coach Jesse Minter and 30-year-old offensive coordinator Declan Doyle — which should infuse the franchise with life. — Mike Jones, New York Times, 29 June 2026 Whitford started dating his Transparent costar Amy Landecker in 2015, and the two got hitched in 2019. — Louis Peitzman, Entertainment Weekly, 21 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitched
  1. attached
  2. yanked
  3. connected
  4. fastened
  5. hijacked
  6. married
  7. jerked
  8. coupled
Adjective
  • Luckily, most clothes have their own set of washing instructions, conveniently located on the attached care label.
    — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The residence has a total of seven bedrooms, five full bathrooms, and a powder room in 6,200 square feet, including an apartment above the attached two-car garage.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of attached
Verb
  • The officer is also seen putting a woman in a patrol car, the same woman who is shown on the ground having her hair yanked by an officer.
    — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • In Berkeley, where California clay culture yanked ceramics out of the category of polite craft and into something huge, physical, ugly, and beautiful, Heilmann learned to weld.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of yanked
Verb
  • Imagine this chain as a string of tiny beads connected together.
    — K. R. Prathyusha, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026
  • In Washington Park, the original report that 10 people had been shot in the attack grew to 15 over the course of Sunday morning, as authorities connected the incident to people who had self-transported for medical treatment.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of connected
Verb
  • Brady is also excited about the Alter G, a treadmill with a harness fastened to it.
    — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The Small Print Slogans travel faster than the conditions fastened to them, and this one has fairly bolted.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of fastened
Verb
  • Set in Massachusetts in 1858, the novel tells the story of a 15-year-old boy who gets trapped aboard a schooner as it gets hijacked.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • That is up from Politico’s report that Somali pirates had seized at least three tankers carrying oil and fertilizer since April, while a chemical-carrying ship was hijacked off Yemen in July.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of hijacked
Adjective
  • On Monday, Hilton’s brother-in-law Tom, who is married to his youngest sister, shared an update on the blogger’s condition — and further details on the incident and his children’s situation — as a guest on The Perez Hilton Podcast With Chris Booker.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
  • London, who was married to hip hop legend Nipsey Hussle, would come together with Snoop again to honor Nipsey after he was murdered in 2019.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of married
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  • But in 1933, within a matter of days, they were jerked back into reality.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Once the squid gather near the surface, lines fitted with bait are lowered into the water and rapidly jerked up and down to imitate small prey such as shrimp, triggering strikes before the catch is reeled aboard.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
Definition of jerked
Verb
  • When such plasma is strongly coupled, the dust grains can’t fly past each other instead behave like elastic rubber.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Keep the model layer, retrieval layer, semantic layer and integration layer loosely coupled wherever possible.
    — Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of coupled

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“Hitched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitched. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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