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

First, don’t rely on the industry to protect youth when its business model depends on hooking new customers and keeping them using their product. — Susan Morrisey, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026

One of the more memorable instances finds Cole grabbing an open padlock off a door and using it to belt an opponent across the face before hooking the shackle into the dude’s mouth and using it to rip open his cheek. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026

The toys have cross-generational appeal, as well, hooking kids, teens, adults and the collector market. — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026

Gamers have been hooking these things up to old SSDs and installing Linux on them, and the performance is pretty solid. — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

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