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

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

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