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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

부화하다

Pronunciation / Transliteration: buhwada

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hatch/hætʃ/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"어미 새가 알을 품어 부화시킵니다."

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To emerge from an egg through breaking the shell.

    "Several tiny duckling chicks began to hatch from their shells this morning."
  2. 2

    To concoct or devise a secret plot, plan, or scheme.

    "The business competitors were suspected of hatching a plan to disrupt the merger."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'hatchen', related to Old High German 'hecchen', meaning to bring forth young from an egg. Over time, the metaphorical sense expanded in the 19th century to include the devising or plotting of secret plans, as in 'hatching a scheme'.

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