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un⋅hitch

  [uhn-hich]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to free from attachment; unfasten: to unhitch a locomotive from a train.
–verb (used without object)
2. to become uncoupled or unfastened.
Origin:
1615–25; un- 2 + hitch
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un·hitch   (ŭn-hĭch')   
tr.v.   un·hitched, un·hitch·ing, un·hitch·es
To release from or as if from a hitch; unfasten.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

unhitch 
1622, from un- (2) + hitch (v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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