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- pronunciation:
- haech
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
hatches, hatching, hatched |
| definition 1: |
to help a young animal break out from (its egg) and be born. Birds, reptiles, and certain kinds of fish hatch eggs.
Ducks hatch their eggs by keeping their nest warm.- similar words:
- brood, incubate
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| definition 2: |
to cause (a baby bird, fish, or other animal) to come forth from an egg.
The turtles hatch their young on the beach.The mother duck hatched her ducklings on dry ground near the water. |
| definition 3: |
to produce or create.
They hatched a plan to surprise him.- synonyms:
- cook up, devise, originate, produce
- similar words:
- conceive, concoct, dream up, generate
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| definition 4: |
to come out of an egg; to be born from an egg.
The ducklings all hatched the same afternoon.- similar words:
- emerge
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| related words: |
brew, develop, invent, produce |
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| derivations: |
hatchable (adj.), hatchability (n.), hatcher (n.) |
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