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1. Emerged from an egg
    
2. Shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines
   - crosshatched

1. Emerge from the egg
   "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
    
2. Devise or invent
   "He hatched a plan to get rich quickly";
   - think up, think of, dream up, concoct, hit on
    
3. (handicraft) inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
    
4. Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
   "hatch the sheet"
    
5. Sit on (eggs)
   - brood, cover, incubate

See also: born, shaded

Type of: be born, create by mental act, create mentally, inlay, line, multiply, procreate, reproduce

Encyclopedia: Hatched