(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If someone ~s a plane or other vehicle, they illegally take control of it by force while it is travelling from one place to another.
Two men tried to ~ a plane on a flight from Riga to Murmansk...
The ~ed plane exploded in a ball of fire.
VERB: V n, V-ed
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Hijack is also a noun.
Every minute during the ~ seemed like a week.
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~ing (~ings)
Car ~ings are running at a rate of nearly 50 a day.
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2.
If you say that someone has ~ed something, you disapprove of the way in which they have taken control of it when they had no right to do so.
A peaceful demonstration had been ~ed by anarchists intent on causing trouble.
VERB: V n disapproval