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hit English

Meaning hit meaning

What does hit mean?
Definitions in simple English

hit Verb

— If you hit someone or something, then you touch them hard and fast. The bully got suspended for hitting the boy in the face. The red car was turning when the blue car hit it. — If you hit on someone, you flirt with them. I'm just gonna be hitting on chicks tonight

hit Noun

— A punch. The hit almost knocked me out. — A great success, especially in the entertainment industry. His new musical comedy was a hit with audiences and critics. He had so many hits last year that he was elected to the Musical Comedy Hall of Fame.

hit

— verb cause to move by striking hit a ball — verb (= strike) hit against; come into sudden contact with The car hit a tree He struck the table with his elbow — verb deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument He hit her hard in the face — noun (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball) he came all the way around on Williams' hit — verb (= reach, make) reach a destination, either real or abstract We hit Detroit by noon The water reached the doorstep We barely made it to the finish line I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts — verb (= strike) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely We were hit by really bad weather He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager The earthquake struck at midnight — verb hit with a missile from a weapon — verb (= score) gain points in a game The home team scored many times He hit a home run He hit .300 in the past season — verb (= stumble) encounter by chance I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant — verb (= strike, come to) cause to experience suddenly Panic struck me An interesting idea hit her A thought came to me The thought struck terror in our minds They were struck with fear — noun (= hitting) the act of contacting one thing with another repeated hitting raised a large bruise after three misses she finally got a hit — verb (= strike) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939 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 — noun (= smasher, bang) a conspicuous success that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career that new Broadway show is a real smasher the party went with a bang — noun a connection made via the internet to another website WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide — noun a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit — noun a dose of a narcotic drug — verb consume to excess hit the bottle — verb hit the intended target or goal — verb pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to He tries to hit on women in bars — verb (= strike) drive something violently into a location he hit his fist on the table she struck her head on the low ceiling — verb (= reach) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level The thermometer hit 100 degrees This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour — verb (= strike) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically The pianist strikes a middle C strike 'z' on the keyboard her comments struck a sour note — noun (= collision) (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction — verb (= murder) kill intentionally and with premeditation The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered

Synonyms hit synonyms

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hit English » English

strike beat knock blow punch slap pound smack bang stroke kill touch bump whip smite shoot smash hammer catch success collide beat up attain attack thrash reach thump run across impact slam score run into box tap flog encounter chop wallop rap move hurt find fight wound whack trauma swipe swat run up against poke

Topics hit topics

What do people use hit to talk about?
Physical actions Physical impact

Hit
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Drip
Person Healthy

Injure
Language and thought Think Learn

Realize
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Like, love

Popular
Work and occupation Tool

Pounding tool

  • What words are used to describe the actions done with these tools?
    pound hit smack club
Physical actions Move something Carry

Throw

  • What words refer to something hitting the ground after being thrown?
    land hit fall
Physical actions Physical impact

Aim at a target
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Wave
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Lose consciousness
Language and thought

Think
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry
Social behavior Relationships

Begin a relationship
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
Social behavior Behavior Do good to

Do evil to
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Attack
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with metal
Physical actions Move Move toward something

Leave
States Quality Shape

Horizontal
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Prompters of attention

Conjugation hit conjugation

How do you conjugate hit?

hit · verb

Examples hit examples

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Simple sentences

I really need to hit somebody.
I was hit by the policeman.
He was hit by a car.
She may have argued with him, but I don't think she could have hit him.
Tom hit me.
I've hit the jackpot.
Tom's car hit a tree.
Tom got hit by a girl.
You almost hit me.
Tom hit his head on the shelf.
Tom got angry and hit Mary.
Tom drilled a hole in the wall and hit a water pipe.
Tom hit a deer.
I have never hit a woman.
It is easier to hit on people on the Internet than in the street.
I will hit the sack.
I barely escaped being hit by the truck.
I was nearly hit by a car.
Bob hit me, not her.
Boxing has been defined as the art of hitting without being hit.
The boxer was hit on the chin and went down for the count.
The ball hit him on the left side of the head.
The ball hit her in the eye.
A ball hit her on the right leg.
Hit the ball on the rise.
Fortune 500 companies were the hardest hit by recent legislation.
I have a very sore arm where you hit me.
First we'll hit Kyoto.
Everything was allowed: You could kick, trip, hit, or bite your opponent.
A truck hit the dog.

Movie subtitles

You'd hit your own mother?
You know I'm a gangster, right? Do you want to get hit or do you want to eat?
My companion was hit by a bullet.
Hit me!
I've never hit a woman in my life.
I hit you to improve your hearing.
Why? But still, how could you hit me so hard?
Then something suddenly hit me at the back. I fainted right away.
That hit the bullseye!
She popped out, and I hit her square in the mouth.
Got up about 4:30, hit the snooze button. just the one time. got up, showered.
All right, so hit me.
Tanner, hit the siren.
If I catch you watching some porn, I'm gonna hit you upside your head with a pillowcase full of oranges.
As for you, Hubert, you'll handle the cholera epidemic, which has hit our troops very hard.
The '48 revolution hit Paris, then Oran.
You're the only single parent whose son witnessed his own mother get killed in a hit-and-run and hasn't said a word since.
And he. he hit me.
Let's hit the road.
I guess that really hit a nerve.
They hit the engine.
I'll run the letter combination against the DMV registry - and see if we can get a hit.
We're going to be a huge hit.
It's sure to be a hit! I'm not the only one in charge.
If you're a hit, your future will be made.
If you make a hit, you can stay here as long as you like.
They thought they hit the target, boss, but bullets just bounce off of you.
Rotten luck, getting hit by that car.
You hit 'em hard like a caveman.
Just thought you might want to know, Frankie and his crew are going to hit back.
One side hits, the other hits back worse, and then those guys want revenge for that, so they hit back even harder.
And then those guys want revenge for that, so they hit back even harder.
When Boyd and Erica leave, it's a hit to Derek's ego.
Last time, she hit and threw me.
A child's been hit by a car.
He's been hit by a car!
I'll run the letter combination against the DMV registry, see if we can get a hit.
You might hit the equipment!

News and current affairs

Indeed, just as BP was being hit with new criminal penalties, ExxonMobil announced yet another pipeline leak in the Niger Delta.
Poor countries will be hit harder, however.
MUNICH - Under substantial external pressure, the eurozone's crisis-hit countries are, at long last, bringing themselves to make painful cuts in their government budgets.
It's hard to know when the next shock will hit, or what form it will take; otherwise, it wouldn't be a shock.
More rockets and missiles fell on northern Israel in 33 days than hit Britain during all of World War II.
I watched from home on CNN as the first cruise missiles hit Baghdad.
The only way, he says, for the Fed to have kept stock prices in reasonable equilibrium ranges in the late 1990's would have been to raise interest rates so high that they hit the real economy on the head with a brick.
Like everywhere else in the developed world, the global crisis has hit the French economy hard, with output stagnating, unemployment rising, job insecurity mounting, government debt soaring, and the stock market at risk of crashing.
Now reality has hit: newspapers report cases of borrowers whose mortgage payments exceed their entire income.
While it meant that American banks were not hit as hard as they would otherwise, America's bad lending practices have had global effects.
Individually, these are each highly plausible scenarios, and collectively they would hit the US trade deficit like a perfect storm.
He is weaker militarily now than then, he cannot hit the US directly, and he must know that fresh aggression would bring the house down upon him.
The implication of these findings is that early on (perhaps since dinosaurs ruled the earth, or even before) evolution hit upon a way of wiring the brain to produce responses likely to keep an organism alive in dangerous situations.
Recession will hit banks' and governments' already-weak balance sheets, increasing pressure for faster deleveraging.
Similarly, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, which has claimed 10,000 lives, exploits the desperation of mountain villagers hit by flash floods - the result of deforestation higher up.
ADDIS ABABA - Climate change will hit Africa - a continent that has contributed virtually nothing to bring it about - first and hardest.
Africa will not only be hit hardest, but it will be hit first.
Nevertheless, the reports about Kim's ill health hit like a rude wake-up call about the precarious nature of conditions in North Korea.
That logic is dubious, given how many similar crises have hit widely differing systems over the centuries.
When financial crisis hit Asia in 1997, America's leaders charged Asian governments with practicing crony capitalism.
US soldiers have repeatedly been implicated in war crimes; and Jeremy Scahill's book Dirty Wars, which details targeted assassinations by the US around the world, has hit bookstores.
Having already officially hit the ceiling, the Treasury is moving money around and tapping various pots of unused funds to pay its bills.
After withering literary assaults on the Almighty from the Oxford academic Richard Dawkins, the essayist Christopher Hitchens, and others, believers have hit back.
China, already in economic trouble, would be hit hardest, along with the whole of East Asia.
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