hijack
hi|jack /h'aɪdʒæk/ (hijacks hijacking hijacked)
1 [VERB] V n, V-ed
If someone hijacks 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 hijack a plane on a flight from Riga to Murmansk...
The hijacked plane exploded in a ball of fire.
[N-COUNT]
Hijack is also a noun.
Every minute during the hijack seemed like a week.
● hijacking [N-COUNT]
Car hijackings are running at a rate of nearly 50 a day.
2 [VERB] V n
If you say that someone has hijacked 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 hijacked by anarchists intent on causing trouble.
1 [VERB] V n, V-ed
If someone hijacks 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 hijack a plane on a flight from Riga to Murmansk...
The hijacked plane exploded in a ball of fire.
[N-COUNT]
Hijack is also a noun.
Every minute during the hijack seemed like a week.
● hijacking [N-COUNT]
Car hijackings are running at a rate of nearly 50 a day.
2 [VERB] V n
If you say that someone has hijacked 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 hijacked by anarchists intent on causing trouble.