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Hit   /hɪt/   Listen
Hit

verb
(past hit; past part. hit; pres. part. hitting)
1.
Cause to move by striking.
2.
Hit against; come into sudden contact with.  Synonyms: collide with, impinge on, run into, strike.  "He struck the table with his elbow"
3.
Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.
4.
Reach a destination, either real or abstract.  Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, make, reach.  "The water reached the doorstep" , "We barely made it to the finish line" , "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
5.
Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely.  Synonym: strike.  "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager" , "The earthquake struck at midnight"
6.
Hit with a missile from a weapon.  Synonyms: pip, shoot.
7.
Encounter by chance.  Synonym: stumble.
8.
Gain points in a game.  Synonyms: rack up, score, tally.  "He hit a home run" , "He hit .300 in the past season"
9.
Cause to experience suddenly.  Synonyms: come to, strike.  "An interesting idea hit her" , "A thought came to me" , "The thought struck terror in our minds" , "They were struck with fear"
10.
Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target.  Synonym: strike.  "We must strike the enemy's oil fields" , "In the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2"
11.
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.  Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay.
12.
Drive something violently into a location.  Synonym: strike.  "She struck her head on the low ceiling"
13.
Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level.  Synonyms: attain, reach.  "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
14.
Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically.  Synonym: strike.  "Strike 'z' on the keyboard" , "Her comments struck a sour note"
15.
Consume to excess.
16.
Hit the intended target or goal.
17.
Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to.
noun
1.
(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
2.
The act of contacting one thing with another.  Synonyms: hitting, striking.  "After three misses she finally got a hit"
3.
A conspicuous success.  Synonyms: bang, smash, smasher, strike.  "That new Broadway show is a real smasher" , "The party went with a bang"
4.
(physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together.  Synonym: collision.
5.
A dose of a narcotic drug.
6.
A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate.
7.
A connection made via the internet to another website.



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"Hit" Quotes from Famous Books



... alas, you've hit the truth, And I with grief can but admit Hot-blooded haste controls my youth, My idle fancies veer and flit From flower to flower, from tree to tree, And when the moment catches me, Oh, love goes by Away I fly And leave my girl ...
— Country Sentiment • Robert Graves
... the rest of the boys in your charge. Don't let them monkey with the river. I don't want to lose anybody this trip. Fall in there, and you'll bring up in the Pacific Ocean—-what's left of you will. Nothing ever'll stop you till you've hit the Sandwich Islands or ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch • Frank Gee Patchin
... literary monthly on sound lines either here or in America. But that is because the world has learnt Mr. George Smith's lesson. All can raise the flower now, for all have got the seed, but at the beginning of the 'sixties the Cornhill had the quality of originality. It exactly hit the popular taste; and in a very short time it was selling by the hundred thousand, a tremendous achievement at that epoch. But though the Cornhill did so well and though Mr. George Smith's energies remained as great as ever up till ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey
... mood was changed. Gurd had hit him very hard. Indeed, no such severe blow had been struck as this unconscious thrust of Richard's. For it meant that an incident that Raymond was striving to reconcile with the ways of youth—a sowing of wild oats not destined to damage future crops—had appeared to the ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... which they give to him, and he mounts. The two champions, being now assured about the lion, which is shut up in the room, come at him to injure him and do him harm. They give him such blows with the maces that his shield and helmet are of little use, for when they hit him on the helmet they batter it in and break it; and the shield is broken and dissolved like ice, for they make such holes in it that one could thrust his fists through it: their onslaught is truly terrible. And he—what does he do against ...
— Four Arthurian Romances - "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot" • Chretien de Troyes


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