"unhitch" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "un- + hitch",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "un- + hitch",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "unhitches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhitching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhitched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhitched",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unhitch (third-person singular simple present unhitches, present participle unhitching, simple past and past participle unhitched)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To disconnect; to detach; to undo that which is hitched."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "disconnect",
          "disconnect"
        ],
        [
          "detach",
          "detach"
        ],
        [
          "hitch",
          "hitch"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "decouple"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "otkačam",
          "sense": "to undo that which is hitched",
          "word": "откачам"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "osvoboždavam",
          "sense": "to undo that which is hitched",
          "word": "освобождавам"
        },
        {
          "code": "chr",
          "lang": "Cherokee",
          "roman": "gudalea",
          "sense": "to undo that which is hitched",
          "word": "ᎫᏓᎴᎠ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unhitch"
}

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      "args": {
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        "2": "un",
        "3": "hitch"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + hitch",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "un- + hitch",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "unhitches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhitching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhitched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unhitched",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "decouple"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To disconnect; to detach; to undo that which is hitched."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "disconnect",
          "disconnect"
        ],
        [
          "detach",
          "detach"
        ],
        [
          "hitch",
          "hitch"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otkačam",
      "sense": "to undo that which is hitched",
      "word": "откачам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "osvoboždavam",
      "sense": "to undo that which is hitched",
      "word": "освобождавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "gudalea",
      "sense": "to undo that which is hitched",
      "word": "ᎫᏓᎴᎠ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unhitch"
}