Synonyms of hitching

hitching

verb

present participle of hitch

1

as in yanking

to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion

kept hitching up his pants because they were too big in the waist

Synonyms & Similar Words

• yanking
• jerking
• pulling
• lurching
• twitching
• tugging
• grabbing
• bucking
• shaking
• jolting
• bumping
• hoicking
• dragging
• tearing
• snatching
• staggering
• jouncing
• jigging
• ripping
• jogging
• jiggling
• lugging
• plucking
• tweaking
• wrenching
• pitching
• snapping (up)
• joggling
• wringing
• wresting

2

as in connecting

to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole

she escaped out the window by using a makeshift rope of bedsheets and clothing she'd hitched together

Synonyms & Similar Words

• connecting
• coupling
• integrating
• linking
• stringing
• yoking
• interconnecting
• hooking
• chaining
• combining
• joining
• interlinking
• concatenating
• compounding
• conjugating
• catenating
• interlocking
• welding
• dovetailing
• articulating
• intermeshing
• wiring
• cementing
• cording
• fusing
• coalescing
• uniting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unhitching
• disconnecting
• separating
• uncoupling
• splitting
• dividing
• detaching
• parting
• disengaging
• unlinking
• disjoining
• unchaining
• disuniting
• disjointing
• dissevering
• unyoking
• severing
• cleaving
• rupturing
• sundering

3

as in securing

to put securely in place or in a desired position

hitched the trailer to the back of the car

Synonyms & Similar Words

• securing
• fastening
• clamping
• catching
• anchoring
• fixing
• mooring
• setting
• wedging
• imbedding
• embedding
• entrenching
• implanting
• intrenching
• lodging
• stuffing
• engraining
• ingraining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• loosening
• unfastening
• pulling
• loosing
• extracting
• yanking
• tearing (out)
• unloosing
• prying
• uprooting
• unfixing
• unloosening
• wresting
• rooting (out)
• prizing

4

as in bumming

to travel by securing free rides

her brother hitched across the country after he graduated from college

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bumming
• hitchhiking
• hijacking
• thumbing
• highjacking
• stowing away
• carjacking