HITCHED Synonyms: 137 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in attached

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verb

past tense of hitch

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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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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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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as in hijacked

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

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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

Adjective

What isn’t vintage is mostly custom designed by Levin—a wall-to-wall couch with conversation pit vibes, a wooden bed with an attached bench, a thoughtful floating console that hides a TV.

— Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2026
On arrival, first responders learned a fire had begun in an attached garage and was moving into the second floor of the home.

— Paula Wethington, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of attached

Verb

Ignoring that rule could get flood insurance coverage yanked for an entire community.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
Wi-Fi is not free on those services; T-Mobile used to comp at least an hour of connectivity for subscribers, but quietly yanked that benefit in April.

— Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of yanked

Verb

So the two started chatting and wondered if there was a resource where they could get connected to couples having a wedding in their area who needed a seat-filler of sorts.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
The two filmmakers had been struggling to get anyone else in Holmes’s orbit on-camera when Emma Stone, a close friend of Fielder’s, connected him with Amanda Seyfried.

— Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of connected

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The Omani Flydubai co-pilot who hijacked a passenger plane last week planned to crash the aircraft into Ben Gurion International Airport in central Israel, UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif al Shamsi said on Friday.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
Season 2’s trailer shows hitwoman Julie reluctantly teaming up with Edward once again, when his dream honeymoon with Kayla (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is hijacked and his new wife taken hostage.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of hijacked

Adjective

Three-times married, his was to be a literary career pock-marked by substance abuse issues leading to a peripatetic existence drifting from one august institution to another.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
Making her Broadway debut, Louis-Dreyfus plays Polly Wyeth, a vodka-swilling, Goyard-toting, Republican matriarch—more Bush, less Boebert—married to Lyman (Harris), an action star turned right-wing pol.

— Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of married

Verb

During the test, Linton jerked and twitched in what prosecutors described as an attempt to fake a seizure.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Somewhere nearby, in a dark office, an eavesdropping oreja has just jerked to attention on his hard little chair.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of jerked

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Later that same year, the researchers coupled their thorium apparatus to an optical atomic clock, proving that these excited nuclei can serve as high-precision timekeepers.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
The uptick in ridership was kneecapped by the company’s tension between the need to raise fares and its need to bring in more passengers, wrote Fitch Ratings in its analysis that coupled a credit downgrading earlier this year.

— Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026

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