What's the difference between unhitch and unwitch?
Unhitch
Definition:
(v. t.) To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yesterday the London Evening Standard, which is 75% owned by Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev, unhitched from a legacy digital deal with former owner DMGT.
(2) It wasn't just the sleep-deprived returning from 4.30am reveries across bars, pubs and mass gatherings who were keen to sink the slipper, as the great unwashed unhitched from the bandwagon.
(3) David Hare By the time the play was part of a revival of the trilogy in Birmingham in 2003, it had become happily unhitched from historical memory – few were able to check the fiction against the template in any detail – and it was moving to find how many people thought that, with the passage of time, The Absence of War had become the strongest of the three works.
(4) Read more I wonder what women’s lives would look like if we unhitched ourselves from the approved timetable and followed our inner desires rather than conventional expectations.
Unwitch
Definition:
(v. t.) To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft.