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US
/ˈhaɪˌdʒæk/
]
[ UK /hˈaɪdʒæk/ ]
[ UK /hˈaɪdʒæk/ ]
VERB
-
seize control of
they hijacked the judicial process -
take arbitrarily or by force
The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami
NOUN
- seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
How To Use hijack In A Sentence
- What if a hijacked plane hit a nuclear power plant, what if bioterrorists infected burger bars, what if we were flooded with smallpox?
- Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
- He rued that they were hijacking his Utopian concepts to unleash "a free-for-all fucking epidemic".
- The audio, which hijacks your cardiac tempo as only ominous electronica amped up in the dark can do, mixes recordings of two timepieces of erstwhile global authority.
- Authorities say when they had last recontacted the pilots, the pilots answers were so vague, they were ordered to take the plane through a series of unnecessary maneuvers to prove it was under their control, not hijacked. CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2009
- A peaceful demonstration had been hijacked by anarchists intent on causing trouble.
- It hijacks the universalism of justice to serve partisan ideological ends.
- Dear gott but did this thread ever get hijacked by a nonissue. McCain Strives For Bill Clinton Moment
- The Republicans, in the face of Obama's ascendancy and the indefensibility of their policy decisions in the last eight years, have just pulled a desperation maneuver and hijacked what is perhaps the most important election in America's history by demoting it to an emotional cat-fight between pro-choice and pro-life women, over the one issue where neither side can be reasonable. Cintra Wilson: It's the Freedom, Stupid
- They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.