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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
Another issue is that once the eggs hatch, the birds might not be able to raise as many young. — Morgan Tingley, The Conversation, 6 July 2026 Only during a brief two-month window in late spring and early summer, when those eggs hatch and the emerging mosquitoes begin feeding on deer, does the virus replicate. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Verb
Once hatched, the larvae burrow into the host and feed on its internal organs. — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026 Chicks hatched at the National Aviary travel to the Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas to be reared to adulthood, according to the aviary's website. — Finch Walker, USA Today, 3 July 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
  • While some businesses relying on summer traffic have been forced to temporarily close their doors, others refuse to let the smoke alter their plans.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • Triple entry doors open into rooms that feel generous and far from overbearing.
    — Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
Definition of door
Verb
  • Now, that rule has come to threaten the very survival of the world’s oldest monarchy which, in recent decades, has spawned more daughters than sons.
    — Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
Definition of spawn
Verb
  • Greenstein’s brother and sister conducted the ceremony, and at the reception, everyone sat at tables named for Italian directors and feasted on dishes like linguine with baby squid and soused trout by chef Antonino Cannavacciuolo.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
  • Of more pressing concern is the man who now sits atop the Rangers’ pay structure, sharp-shooting wing and former Vegas Golden Knight Pavel Dorofeyev, who signed a seven-year deal which carries an average annual value of $11 million.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 15 July 2026
Definition of sit
Verb
  • Pianist Lex Korten and trumpeter Adam O’Farrill open freely, crash landing into the suite with cold, brooding interplay as opposed to the straightforward funk vamp of Roach’s version.
    — Rae-Aila Crumble, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
  • Saracho will serve as showrunner and executive producer of the drama series following a captive princess who gets kidnapped by a brooding werewolf alpha and plunged into a bloodthirsty war.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 25 June 2026
Definition of brood
Verb
  • Instead of or in addition to working with language, world models aim to lay the groundwork for AI systems that are capable of simulating the physical world, or at least a useful approximation of it.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
  • What Earlier Trials Found Two earlier studies laid the groundwork.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026
Definition of lay
Verb
  • Molecular clouds can also be stellar nurseries, incubating new stars and planets in their depths.
    — Damien Pine, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
  • According to the ancient Greeks, a mighty serpent called Ophion incubated an enormous egg that hatched into the universe and all its inhabitants.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Definition of incubate

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