hijacked
past simple and past participle of
hijack
Meaning of hijacked in English
Two men hijacked a jet travelling to Paris and demanded $125,000.
- 9/11
- anti-hijacking
- anti-terrorism
- anti-terrorist
- bioterrorism
- counter-terrorist
- counterterrorism
- crime against humanity
- false flag
- high treason
- hijacking
- narcoterrorism
- sedition
- seditiously
- skyjack
- skyjacker
- terror
- terrorism
- tradecraft
- treason
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Examples of hijacked
hijacked
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
And a careful distinction between resilience and adaptability would, for instance, prevent the climate change debate being hijacked by the adaptationists.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
With argument-dependent lookup, these other calls can be accidentally hijacked by functions with the same name in the client's namespace.
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Historians, with their nuances, their explanatory sophistication, their relativism and judiciousness, are quite out of their depth when history is hijacked to politics.
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His judgements, however, include such statements as 'the heights of inarticulacy', 'this blather', language studies 'hijacked by the descriptive linguists', and 'dreary gruel' (the output of those linguists).
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Most people believe that they have been hijacked by political parties, especially when one examines the personalities involved in these organisations and their relationship with some political parties.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
They should not allow themselves to be hijacked by underfunded and understaffed head teachers as part-time, unpaid, untrained extra teachers.
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Six airliners have been hijacked, the last one in the middle east.
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There is absolutely no doubt that, at some point in the early months of 1999, the national sports stadium project was hijacked by football.
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One hundred and forty-three vehicles have been hijacked in the past 12 months in an attempt to bring our city to a standstill.
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So there need be no plutonium transport, no plutonium to be hijacked.
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I agree with those people who have regretted that the whole debate has been hijacked into an entirely irrelevant consideration about duty-free.
For local authorities there is an underfunded grant; there is an underfunded grant perversely hijacked into private residential care.
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The situation is clearer and the process will not be hijacked for political aims.
Approximately 12 vehicles were hijacked and set on fire.
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Buses are often hijacked and destroyed, or seriously damaged.
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