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To keep an egg warm, allowing it to hatch
“The new film is about as entertaining as watching a chicken hatch her eggs.”
To produce offspring, typically from eggs
“A broody hen will hatch a brood of chicks the way nature intended.”
To conspire to devise (a plot or plan)
“He tells his brother what he has seen and together they hatch a plot to catch her.”
To set up or establish
“Discoveries of faculty members and the investments of venture capitalists were combined to hatch a company that would preserve health or banish sickness.”
To shade or mark with parallel lines, or with lines that cross each other
“This makes perfect sense for learning to hatch with a pencil, so I set about practicing in slow-motion.”
To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated or intensive efforts
To prepare something in advance
To bring about or cause to happen
To come from or have its origin from
To come up with a false account or representation of something
To darken or color with lines or a block of color
Plural for a means of access or entry
“The young lady sitting there didn't see the two soldiers enter through the hatch as Marcus had blocked her view.”
Plural for offspring or children (collectively) of a family
Plural for a hinged barrier used to close an opening in a wall, fence, or hedge
Plural for a doorway with a hatch rather than a door
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