hatchEnglishOxford English Thesaurushatch verb 1 the duck hatched a clutch of eggs: incubate, brood, sit on, cover; bring forth. 2 the little plot that you and Sylvia hatched up last night: devise, conceive, contrive, concoct, brew, invent, plan, design, formulate; think up, make up, dream up, trump up, put together; informal cook up.hatch (2) Oxford Dictionary of English