UNHITCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unhitch mean? 

• UNHITCH (verb)
  The verb UNHITCH has 1 sense:

1. unfasten or release from or as if from a hitch

  Familiarity information: UNHITCH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNHITCH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unfasten or release from or as if from a hitch

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "unhitch" is one way to...):

undo (cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unhitch"):

unyoke (remove the yoke from)

unharness (remove the harness from)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Antonym:

hitch (to hook or entangle)

 Context examples 

"I'll unhitch and get the water so we can start cooking."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)