unhitch

English

Etymology

un- +‎ hitch

Verb

unhitch (third-person singular simple present unhitches, present participle unhitching, simple past and past participle unhitched)

1. To disconnect; to detach; to undo that which is hitched.
   • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:

     Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.

Translations

to undo that which is hitched

• Bulgarian: откачам (bg) (otkačam), освобождавам (bg) (osvoboždavam)
• Cherokee: ᎫᏓᎴᎠ (gudalea)
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Anagrams

• Hutchin