Thesaurus results for HIGHJACK

hijack

verb

ˈhī-ˌjak

variants also highjack

Definition of hijack next

as in to commandeer

to take control of (a vehicle) by force some loser tried to hijack the plane with a toy gun

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Recent Examples of hijack Their just cause is hijacked by an extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world. —

Matt Grobar, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024 Put simply: the pardon is not going to stay front of mind for most Americans, and Trump is likely to find a way to hijack the public discourse as Team Joe runs down the clock. Make sense of what matters in Washington. —

Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024 Listen to this article Loading your audio article A Kenyan man was convicted Monday for conspiring to hijack an aircraft in the U.S. and crash it into a building in an attack eerily reminiscent of the Sept. 11, 2001 assault. —

Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 5 Nov. 2024 Phishing-resistant multifactor authentication can prevent threat actors from hijacking employee accounts. —

Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hijack