Synonyms of hooking

hooking

verb

present participle of hook

1

as in bending

to cause to turn away from a straight line

the pitcher hooked the ball, and the batter missed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bending
• arching
• curving
• curling
• twisting
• bowing
• crooking
• turning
• swerving
• waving
• deflecting
• diverting
• weaving
• rounding
• swirling
• arcing
• looping
• veering
• reflecting
• coiling
• inflecting
• incurving
• twining
• entwining
• winding
• spiraling
• kinking
• enrolling
• warping
• denting
• sloping
• inclining
• meandering
• incurvating
• dimpling
• declining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straightening
• uncurling
• unbending

2

as in connecting

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

hooked up three short chains together to make a longer necklace

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

3

as in stealing

to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep

the monkey hooked four bananas from the basket and scampered away to enjoy them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stealing
• swiping
• grabbing
• lifting
• snatching
• appropriating
• robbing
• pinching
• pilfering
• pocketing
• filching
• thieving
• nicking
• nipping
• snitching
• boosting
• misappropriating
• purloining
• ripping off
• hijacking
• taking
• picking
• running off with
• making off with
• making away with
• heisting
• seizing
• walking off with
• plundering
• sacking
• burglarizing
• looting
• knocking over
• pillaging
• nailing
• grasping
• poaching
• rifling
• collaring
• abducting
• shoplifting
• sponging
• mooching
• kidnapping
• rustling
• spiriting
• carjacking
• shanghaiing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• buying
• purchasing
• giving
• presenting
• contributing
• donating
• bestowing
• handing over

4

as in grabbing

to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly

I hooked the biggest fish of the day, and then released it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grabbing
• catching
• snatching
• seizing
• getting
• capturing
• trapping
• snagging
• landing
• snaring
• corralling
• netting
• grappling
• nailing
• nabbing
• bagging
• collaring
• rapping
• copping
• snapping (up)
• taking hold (of)
• glomming
• arresting
• roping
• nobbling
• holding
• grasping
• clutching
• securing
• detaining
• gripping
• apprehending
• lassoing
• gloving
• clasping
• cornering
• entrapping
• ensnaring
• kidnapping
• meshing
• entangling
• haltering
• abducting
• enmeshing
• fisting
• rending
• fastening (on)
• wresting
• latching (on or onto)
• baying
• spiriting (away or off)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missing
• releasing
• discharging
• freeing
• dropping
• liberating
• loosening
• unhanding

5

as in curving

to turn away from a straight line or course

hang the bird feeder on a branch that hooks upward

Synonyms & Similar Words

• curving
• sweeping
• arcing
• turning
• bowing
• winding
• arching
• rounding
• bending
• falling off
• looping
• wheeling
• trending
• crooking
• curling
• swerving
• circling
• coiling
• spiraling
• twisting
• deviating
• veering
• curlicuing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straightening

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hooking

Guides tailor each day around conditions and what’s running, with trips that might involve swinging flies from a gravel bar, wading a gin-clear tributary, or floating miles of river in hopes of hooking a chrome-bright or rainbow-hued fish. — Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2026

In the 1950s, people were hooking mammoth groupers, marine goliaths that could be six feet in length. — Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

As the arrows on the chart indicate, the red line (sellers) is hooking down and the green line (buyers) is hooking up. — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 7 July 2026

Still, there are challenges ahead, especially relating to the bureaucratic obstacles of building large energy projects and hooking them up to the grid. — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 23 June 2026

An example of the previously undisclosed debauchery includes a pair female twins allegedly hooking themselves up to a car battery for $10,000. — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2026

After referees called Wembanyama on a foul on Karl-Anthony Towns, a review determined that Towns had been the one to commit a foul, an offensive foul, by hooking Wembanyama with his arm. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 11 June 2026

However, the episode ends with a fisherman hooking an unknown big catch in the very lake where the billionaire's body lies. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026

In the video, Jessie, who is wearing a blue bikini, puts one foot on her husband's thigh and the other on his shoulder, hooking it around his neck, and stands up steadily while flashing her arm muscles at the camera. — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026