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noun

Definition of hatchnext
as in door
a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened watertight hatches provided access through the ship's bulkheads

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verb

as in to spawn
to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop the mallards and geese have begun hatching in their nests down by the pond

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Recent Examples of hatch
Noun
Instead, in this assault, many of the tanks carried only a small canopy over the commander's hatch with a thin steel plate, likely intended to provide standoff protection against munitions dropped by heavy bomber drones. — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Salmon also suffered, partly because drought had affected inland rivers, where Chinook and Coho migrate to spawn, eggs hatch, and salmon fry swim back downstream to the ocean. — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
Verb
Black-and-yellow mangrove snakes are able to hunt independently soon after hatching. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Aug. 2026 How businesses have been faring By then, Fritz said, property and business owners along the street had given up on waiting for the project to be finished and had hatched plans to begin promoting a new Flagler Street anyway, Fritz said. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hatch
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatch
  1. door
  2. spawn
  3. sit
  4. brood
  5. lay
  6. incubate
Noun
  • The bedroom is on floor one, the first door on the right (that door, by the way, has three peepholes carved seemingly at random), and is bedecked in reddish wood.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
  • With the door now open for the home team, Florida’s Austin Richardson on Feel the Magic made up the ground the Freedom were hoping for.
    — Ava DiCecca, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of door
Verb
  • The film’s success spawned several sequels, including Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
  • For three decades, rap legend and cultural icon Tupac Shakur’s killing has remained one of America’s great unsolved mysteries, spawning countless books, documentaries and long-form investigative journalism pieces.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of spawn
Verb
  • Also sitting empty are all four corners, allowing those in the main stand to watch the Underground trains trundle along the Jubilee Line on their way to final stop Stanmore and back.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Sponge The sponge typically consists of a soft layer of foam that sits between the blade and the rubber.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of sit
Verb
  • The arrogant, brooding youth is gone almost entirely, and someone far more circumspect and humbled kneels before his older brother.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • In his drive from Valdosta, Georgia, to Fort Worth, Xavier had time to mull his mission, hours alone in a pickup truck to brood on the bitterness that his father had stirred, or, perhaps, change his mind about killing him.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of brood
Verb
  • Elkins had announced the retirement before fight week, calling it his last dance, and laid his gloves in the center of the octagon afterward.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Daemon brings troops and his dragon Caraxes, but holds out on laying siege for as long as possible, especially as Ormund has stationed children on the battlements and in front of the gates to the city.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of lay
Verb
  • So maybe, counterintuitively, this is the perfect moment for the BBC to launch a new reality show that aims to incubate the next great art-dealing duo.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Since the pair formed in 2018, fans have watched them weather freezing winter storms, incubate eggs and dote on fuzzy chicks.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of incubate

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