hatch 1 of 2

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
After three to four days, the larva hatches and uses sharp mandibles to bore into the still-living tarantula. — Sean Donnelly, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026 Vicky Poole, the associate curator of ectotherms at the Fort Worth Zoo, said every successful hatch gives them another chance to refine their techniques. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
Yet more nests are hatching, even as a smaller percentage of those chicks are surviving. — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 One pest-controlling spider may be okay, but those eggs do eventually hatch. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 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 captain managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers to enter and restrain the attacker.
    — SAM MEDNICK, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Inside the cabin, extensive additional sound deadening in the doors, trunk and wheel arches means phone calls and passenger conversations are entirely effortless at highway speeds.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of door
Verb
  • Additionally, Reacher has spawned a franchise with spinoff Neagley, starring Maria Sten, which is looking good for a Season 2 renewal.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Resident Evil, a 30-year-old horror game series, has previously spawned seven film adaptations, but it’s taken the director of Barbarian and Weapons to give us one that actually works.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of spawn
Verb
  • Back in the present, the Halogram (last updated in 2006) susses out that John is lying about the grandeur of Hal’s funeral when the former protégé mentions sitting next to MOGO, the Lantern who famously doesn’t socialize.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026
  • That’s why inflation, which has sat well above the Fed’s 2% target for more than five years, remains a problem that won’t be easily solved, even if the Iran war ended and tariffs went away.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of sit
Verb
  • As Edward Cullen, a vampire blessed with brooding, Byronic good looks, Pattinson captivated audiences, becoming a heartthrob for a rising generation of moviegoers.
    — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2026
  • To be fair, Snyder, who’s also credited as the film’s cinematographer, captures no shortage of admittedly stirring images throughout, especially those involving flickering light and brooding shadows.
    — Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of brood
Verb
  • Which other creature would have laid its eggs in such a place—which other creature would have had that distant memory of a shoreline buried deep inside?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Easing human tasks Hyundai expects Atlas robots to enter component assembly lines within the decade, laying the framework for broader industrial adoption.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of lay
Verb
  • Nesting is always perilous, but the moment when the male and female trade places is especially so, as the incubating bird’s movement may catch the attention of a predator.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The scientists propose that Webb is catching supermassive black hole stars — up to 1 million times the mass of the sun — in the act of incubating the universe’s first big black holes.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of incubate

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“Hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatch. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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