Synonyms of hatches

hatches 1 of 2

noun

plural of hatch

as in doors

a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened

watertight hatches provided access through the ship's bulkheads

Synonyms & Similar Words

• doors
• portals
• gates
• trapdoors
• double doors
• storm doors
• lattices
• French doors
• revolving doors
• portcullises
• Dutch doors
• wickets
• posterns

hatches

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of hatch

as in spawns

to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop

the mallards and geese have begun hatching in their nests down by the pond

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spawns
• sits
• broods
• lays
• sets
• incubates

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hatches

Noun

At the time, his high school was on the brink of shutting down—but the then-teenager battened down the hatches, studied hard, and became class valedictorian. —Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026

During this stage of the descent, Orion will be engulfed in a fireball, flickering plasma igniting outside the window hatches. —Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2026

On the shipwreck the hatches are fastened properly. —Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026

The closeout crew had closed the first of two hatches that need to be shut tight before launch. —Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026

Assisting them will be a five-person team known as the closeout crew, which is responsible for closing and performing leak checks on Orion's hatches and are the last people the astronauts see before launch. —Miles Doran, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026

Soon, the closeout crew will close the crew module and the exterior hatches on the launch abort system, which is a lengthy, careful process. —Charlie Gile, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026

The smugglers let him aboard, and the boy clambered around hatches that, if opened, would reveal dozens of felonies worth of illicit cargo. —Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026

Leeds battened down the hatches. —Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026

Verb

With time running out to beat Russia, NASA hatches an 11th-hour plan to replace a veteran astronaut (Duvall) with a civilian geologist (Caan) for a one-way moon trip using a modified Gemini spacecraft. —Jeff Spry, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026

After successfully impersonating Sarah Kim as a customer in luxury shops across the city, Mi-jeong hatches a plan to kill Sarah Kim and take her place. —Kayti Burt, Time, 13 Feb. 2026

With her daughter back in Madrid waiting for a solid offer for the apartment, Maria hatches a plan. —G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026

Feeling bored, resentful and trapped by domestic life, Hedda hatches a plan to destroy her husband’s potential career rival, Eilert Lovberg, who happens to be her ex-lover. —Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026

In desperation, Yoo hatches a chilling yet darkly logical plan. —Robert Lang, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026

In the holiday rom-com, a single mother (Alexandra Breckenridge) hatches a scheme to dress up as an old man and get a job at an upscale ski resort to snag her daughter discount snowboard lessons. —Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025

There’s Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), queen of the female gang the Forty Elephants, who’s sick of stealing from the poor and hatches a scheme to yoink valuables from the Queen of England. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025

The larvae then hatches from the eggs and burrows into tissue of animals to feed on them. —Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2025