unhitched

verb

past tense of unhitch
as in disconnected

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  1. disconnected
  2. uncoupled
  3. disjoined
  4. disunited
  5. separated
  6. disengaged
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  • But these programs are disconnected and spread out across the state, creating a situation where students in one part of Connecticut may have access to opportunities that are walled off from students living elsewhere.
    — P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The team also demonstrated that the sheet could reconstruct its overall shape even after some fibers were cut or disconnected.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of disconnected
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  • Nigo has mostly favored coed shows during the men’s calendar in Paris since 2022, but had recently uncoupled them to give womenswear a bigger spotlight.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • In exchange for some $200 million per season, NBC and Peacock will assume dominion over the Sunday Night Baseball package from which ESPN uncoupled itself in February.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Definition of uncoupled
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  • The Dixmoor Public Library District, founded in 1989, initially shared services with the Harvey Public Library District but disjoined due to economic reasons.
    — Elena Tittel, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The Lions haven't looked this disjoined offensively since Week 1, the last time they were held to fewer than 30 points.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2025
Definition of disjoined
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  • Not since the Civil War have these proverbially United States been so disunited.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Opponents of the Islamic Republic remain hopelessly disorganized and disunited.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2026
Definition of disunited
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  • In the commotion, she was briefly separated from her 85-year-old mother, who lives with her.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Instead, the adults were the ones who needed to be separated.
    — Jonathan Alpert OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of separated
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  • During a flight from Moscow to Hong Kong in March, 1994, the pilot allowed his teen-age son to sit at the controls of the plane, and the boy unknowingly disengaged the autopilot.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • With the throne disengaged from governance, petitions and reports from officials piled up unread, crucial state posts went unfilled, and the imperial bureaucracy splintered amid poisonous factional infighting.
    — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of disengaged
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