UNHITCHED Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

unhitched

verb

past tense of unhitch

as in disconnected

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The rear subframe can be disconnected, allowing the engine and fuel tank to slide out together as a single unit.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026
The phone call did not reveal a location because it was disconnected almost immediately, the sheriff's office said.

— Michael Guise, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

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Nigo has mostly favored coed shows during the men’s calendar in Paris since 2022, but had recently uncoupled them to give womenswear a bigger spotlight.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 18 Dec. 2025
In exchange for some $200 million per season, NBC and Peacock will assume dominion over the Sunday Night Baseball package from which ESPN uncoupled itself in February.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025

Definition of uncoupled

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The Dixmoor Public Library District, founded in 1989, initially shared services with the Harvey Public Library District but disjoined due to economic reasons.

— Elena Tittel, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
The Lions haven't looked this disjoined offensively since Week 1, the last time they were held to fewer than 30 points.

— Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2025

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Beckman portrayed the first lady's work on the ceasefire as an extension of her efforts to help reunite Russian and Ukrainian children with their families after they were separated by Russia's war against Ukraine.

— BEN FINLEY, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Her parents had recently separated, and her mother, Alta Apantenco, was working as a waitress to support herself and her young daughter.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026

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During a flight from Moscow to Hong Kong in March, 1994, the pilot allowed his teen-age son to sit at the controls of the plane, and the boy unknowingly disengaged the autopilot.

— Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
With the throne disengaged from governance, petitions and reports from officials piled up unread, crucial state posts went unfilled, and the imperial bureaucracy splintered amid poisonous factional infighting.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

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