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hatch

1  [hach]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to bring forth (young) from the egg.
2. to cause young to emerge from (the egg) as by brooding or incubating.
3. to bring forth or produce; devise; create; contrive; concoct: to hatch a scheme.
–verb (used without object)
4. to be hatched.
5. to brood.
–noun
6. the act of hatching.
7. something that is hatched, as a brood.
Origin:
1200–50; ME hacchen; akin to G hecken to hatch

Related forms:
hatch⋅a⋅ble, adjective
hatch⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
hatcher, noun

Synonyms:
1. incubate, brood. 3. plan, plot.
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hatch 2   (hāch)   
v.   hatched, hatch·ing, hatch·es

v.   intr.
To emerge from or break out of an egg.
v.   tr.

  1. To produce (young) from an egg.

  2. To cause (an egg or eggs) to produce young.

  3. To devise or originate, especially in secret: hatch an assassination plot.

n.  

  1. The act or an instance of hatching.

  2. The young hatched at one time; a brood.


[Middle English hacchen, from Old English *hæccan.]
hatch'er n.
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