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Meaning of ‘hit’
23 definitions found.
a successful swing in a baseball game
Example: "The base runner came all the way home on Williams' hit."
a conspicuous success
Example: "That song was my first hit and marked the beginning of my career as a singer."
Synonyms: bang smash smasher strike
the act of forcefully contacting one thing with another
Example: "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"
Synonyms: striking hitting
a counting term for an internet user viewing a web page
Example: "Yesterday our website got over 500 hits!"
a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
Example: "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
a dose of an illicit drug
Example: "it's not a good idea to take your first hit of heroin"
to pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
Example: "They tried to hit on patrons of the bar."
gain points in a game
Synonyms: score tally rack up
make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
Synonyms: strike
hit with a missile from a weapon
Synonyms: shoot pip
to strike the intended target or goal
Example: "I hit the goal!"
consume to excess
Example: "hit the bottle"
affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
Example: "We were hit by really bad weather"
Synonyms: strike
produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically
Synonyms: strike
hit against
Synonyms: strike impinge on run into collide with
deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
Example: "I hit you hard in the face."
to cause to move by striking, moving it into a new location, either intended or not
Example: "I hit a ball into the backyard."
reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
Example: "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"
Synonyms: reach
reach a destination, either real or abstract
Example: "We hit Detroit by noon"
Synonyms: make reach gain arrive at attain
to drive something violently into a location
Example: "I hit my fist on the table to get the room's attention."
Synonyms: strike
cause to experience suddenly
Synonyms: strike come to
encounter by chance
Synonyms: stumble
kill intentionally and with premeditation
Synonyms: dispatch murder off remove polish off slay bump off
Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University
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