hit meaning
UK /hɪt/ US /hɪt/ 1 syllable
hit (verb): cause to move by striking.
hit has 23 meanings in this dictionary, as verb and noun.
hit as a verb
- cause to move by striking
- hit a ball
Type of: propel
Kinds: play, foul, cannon, clap, ground out, toe, shank, pitch, fly, snap, whang, undercut
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- The car hit a tree
- He struck the table with his elbow
Synonyms: strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
Opposite: miss
Type of: touch
Kinds: stub, ping, spang, rear-end, broadside, connect, spat, thud, bottom, bottom out, bump, run into
Related forms: hitting
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- He hit her hard in the face
Type of: touch
Kinds: clap, slam, lam into, kick, swipe, smite, hook, swat, sock, bean, pop, get
Related forms: hitting
- 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
Synonyms: reach, make, attain, arrive at, gain
Kinds: catch up, scale, access, bottom out, top out, summit, top, make, find, culminate, get through, ground
- 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
Synonyms: strike
Type of: affect
- hit with a missile from a weapon
Type of: injure
Kinds: gun down, grass, kneecap
Related forms: hitting
- encounter by chance
- I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant
Synonyms: stumble
Type of: come by
- gain points in a game
- The home team scored many times
- He hit a home run
- He hit .300 in the past season
Synonyms: score, tally, rack up
Type of: gain
Kinds: par, shoot, convert, homer, kick, eagle, hole up, ace, walk, equalize, have
- 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
- 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
Synonyms: strike
Type of: attack
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered
Synonyms: murder, slay, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
Type of: kill
- drive something violently into a location
- he hit his fist on the table
- she struck her head on the low ceiling
Synonyms: strike
Type of: move
Kinds: smash
- 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
Type of: arrive
Kinds: max out, break even
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- The pianist strikes a middle C
- strike `z' on the keyboard
Synonyms: strike
Type of: touch
- hit the intended target or goal
Type of: succeed
Related forms: hitting
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- He tries to hit on women in bars
Type of: approach
hit as a noun
- (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
- he came all the way around on Williams' hit
Type of: feat
Kinds: base hit
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- repeated hitting raised a large bruise
- after three misses she finally got a hit
Type of: touch
Kinds: contusion, crash, bunt, fly, grounder, header, scorcher, plunk
- 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
Synonyms: smash, smasher, strike, bang
Type of: success
Kinds: blockbuster, sleeper
- (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
Synonyms: collision
Type of: contact
- a dose of a narcotic drug
Type of: dose
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit
Type of: murder
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide
Type of: joining
How to pronounce hit
hit is pronounced /hɪt/ in British English and /hɪt/ in American English. It has 1 syllable.
Words that rhyme with hit
Scrabble score: 6 (letter breakdown)
Word lists: words starting with HI · words ending in IT · 3-letter words
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