hit (h t)v. hit, hit·ting, hits v.tr.1. a. To come into contact with forcefully; strike: The car hit the guardrail. b. To reach with or as if with a blow: The bullet hit the police officer in the shoulder. 2. a. To cause to come into contact: She hit her hand against the wall. b. To deal a blow to. c. To strike with a missile: fired and hit the target. 3. To press or push (a key or button, for example): hit the return key by mistake. 4. Sports a. To reach with a propelled ball or puck: hit the running back with a pass. b. To score in this way: She hit the winning basket. c. To perform (a shot or maneuver) successfully: couldn't hit the jump shot. d. To propel with a stroke or blow: hit the ball onto the green. 5. Baseball a. To execute (a base hit) successfully: hit a single. b. To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully: can't hit a slider. 6. To affect, especially adversely: The company was hit hard by the recession. Influenza hit the elderly the hardest. 7. Informal a. To come upon or discover, especially by chance: finally hit the right exit. b. To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery. c. To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to: It finally hit him that she might be his long-lost sister. 8. a. Informal To attain or reach: Monthly sales hit a new high. She hit 40 on her last birthday. b. To accord with; suit: The idea hit my fancy. c. To produce or represent accurately: trying to hit the right note. 9. Games To deal cards to. 10. Sports To bite on or take (bait or a lure). Used of a fish. v.intr.1. To strike or deal a blow. 2. a. To come into contact with something; collide. b. To attack: The raiders hit at dawn. c. To happen or occur: The storm hit without warning. 3. To achieve or find something desired or sought: finally hit on the answer; hit upon a solution to the problem. 4. Baseball To bat or bat well: Their slugger hasn't been hitting lately. 5. Sports To score by shooting, especially in basketball: hit on 7 of 8 shots. 6. To ignite a mixture of air and fuel in the cylinders. Used of an internal-combustion engine. n.1. a. A collision or impact. b. A successfully executed shot, blow, thrust, or throw. c. Sports A deliberate collision with an opponent, such as a body check in ice hockey. 2. A successful or popular venture: a Broadway hit. 3. Computer Science A connection made to a website over the Internet or another network: Our company's website gets about 2,000 hits daily. 4. An apt or effective remark. 5. Abbr. H Baseball A base hit. 6. Slang a. A dose of a narcotic drug. b. A puff of a cigarette or a pipe. 7. Slang A murder planned and carried out usually by a member of an underworld syndicate. Phrasal Verbs: hit on Slang To pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to: can't go into a bar lately without being hit on. hit up Slang To approach and ask (someone) for something, especially for money: tried to hit me up for a loan. Idioms: hit it big Slang To be successful: investors who hit it big on the stock market. hit it off Informal To get along well together. hit the books Informal To study, especially with concentrated effort. hit the bottle/booze/sauce Slang To engage in drinking alcoholic beverages. hit the bricks Slang To go on strike. hit the fan Slang To have serious, usually adverse consequences. hit the ground running Informal To begin a venture with great energy, involvement, and competence. hit the hay/sack Slang To go to bed: hit the hay well before midnight. hit the high points/spots To direct attention to the most important points or places. hit the jackpot To become highly and unexpectedly successful, especially to win a great deal of money. hit the nail on the head To be absolutely right. hit the road Slang To set out, as on a trip; leave. hit the roof/ceiling Slang To express anger, especially vehemently. hit the spot To give total or desired satisfaction, as food or drink.
[Middle English hitten, from Old English hyttan, from Old Norse hitta.]
hit less adj. hitta·ble adj. |
hit Verb [hitting, hit] 1. to strike or touch (a person or thing) forcefully 2. to come into violent contact with: a helicopter hit a Volvo 3. to propel (a ball) by striking 4. Cricket to score (runs) 5. to affect (a person, place, or thing) badly: the airline says that its revenue will be hit 6. to reach (a point or place): the city's crime level hit new heights 7. hit the bottle Slang to start drinking excessive amounts of alcohol 8. hit the road Informal to set out on a journey Noun 1. an impact or collision 2. a shot or blow that reaches its target 3. Informal a person or thing that gains wide appeal: those early collections made her a hit with the club set 4. Computers slang a single visit to a website: over 500 000 hits a day to its site
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. |  hit - (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"exploit, feat, effort - a notable achievement; "he performed a great feat"; "the book was her finest effort" base hit, safety - (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" | | 2. |  hit - the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"touching, touch - the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights" contusion - the action of bruising; "the bruise resulted from a contusion" crash, smash - the act of colliding with something; "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line" bunt - (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat fly ball, fly - (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air header - (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head plunker, plunk - (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | | 3. |  hit - 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"success - an attainment that is successful; "his success in the marathon was unexpected"; "his new play was a great success" megahit, smash hit, blockbuster - an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) sleeper - an unexpected hit; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer" | | 4. |  hit - (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"impinging, striking, contact - the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull" | | 5. | hit - a dose of a narcotic drugdose, dosage - a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time | | 6. | hit - a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" | | 7. | hit - a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"joining, connexion, connection - the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet" | | Verb | 1. | hit - cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"play - shoot or hit in a particular manner; "She played a good backhand last night" clap - strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise; "clap two boards together" ground out - make an out by hitting the ball on the ground toe - drive (a golf ball) with the toe of the club shank - hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction pitch - hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin snap - put in play with a snap; "snap a football" whang - propel or hit with force; "whang the ball" undercut - strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot putt - strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter; "he putted the ball several feet past the hole" heel - strike with the heel of the club; "heel a golf ball" toe - hit (a golf ball) with the toe of the club bunker - hit a golf ball into a bunker bounce - hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball" pop - hit a pop-fly; "He popped out to shortstop" follow through - carry a stroke to natural completion after hitting or releasing a ball shell - hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning" ground - hit a groundball; "he grounded to the second baseman" top - strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin pull - hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing; "pull the ball" kill - hit with great force; "He killed the ball" kill - hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games; "She killed the ball" connect - hit or play a ball successfully; "The batter connected for a home run" drive - hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally; "drive a ball" drive - strike with a driver, as in teeing off; "drive a golf ball" bunt, drag a bunt - hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance snick - hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat racket - hit (a ball) with a racket dribble, carry - propel, "Carry the ball"; "dribble the ball" slice - hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction hook - hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left single - hit a single; "the batter singled to left field" propel, impel - cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship" smash - hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke shoot - throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball" volley - hit before it touches the ground; "volley the tennis ball" croquet - drive away by hitting with one's ball, "croquet the opponent's ball" loft - kick or strike high in the air; "loft a ball" | | 2. |  hit - hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"stub - strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object; "She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken" touch - make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" ping - hit with a pinging noise; "The bugs pinged the lamp shade" spang, bang - leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees" rear-end - collide with the rear end of; "The car rear-ended me" broadside - collide with the broad side of; "her car broad-sided mine" connect - land on or hit solidly; "The brick connected on her head, knocking her out" spat - strike with a sound like that of falling rain; "Bullets were spatting the leaves" thud - strike with a dull sound; "Bullets were thudding against the wall" bottom - strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom bottom out - hit the ground; "the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road" bump, knock - knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree" strike - deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" clash, collide - crash together with violent impact; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed" miss - fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target" | | 3. | hit - deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"touch - make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" clap - strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting bang, slam - strike violently; "slam the ball" kick - strike with the foot; "The boy kicked the dog"; "Kick the door down" swipe - strike with a swiping motion smite - inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon hook - hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly" swat - hit swiftly with a violent blow; "Swat flies" bean - hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball pop - hit or strike; "He popped me on the head" catch, get - reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot; "the rock caught her in the back of the head"; "The blow got him in the back"; "The punch caught him in the stomach" conk - hit, especially on the head; "The stranger conked him and he fainted" cosh - hit with a cosh, usually on the head crack - hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler" stun, sandbag - hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag bat - strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball" bat - use a bat; "Who's batting?" bat - have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez" cut - hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction; "cut a Ping-Pong ball" pound, thump, poke - hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist" smack, thwack - deliver a hard blow to; "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved" belt - deliver a blow to; "He belted his opponent" punch, plug - deliver a quick blow to; "he punched me in the stomach" slug, swig, slog - strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out" biff, pommel, pummel - strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators" buff, buffet - strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him" box - hit with the fist; "I'll box your ears!" | | 4. | hit - 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"catch up - reach the point where one should be after a delay; "I caught up on my homework" surmount, scale - reach the highest point of; "We scaled the Mont Blanc" get at, access - reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof" bottom out - reach the low point; "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while" peak, top out - to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" summit, breast - reach the summit (of a mountain); "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit" top - reach or ascend the top of; "The hikers topped the mountain just before noon" make - reach in time; "We barely made the plane" make - reach in time; "We barely made the plane" find - succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark" culminate - reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body come through, get through - succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems; "We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister" | | 5. |  hit - 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"strike, hit - 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" | | 6. | hit - hit with a missile from a weaponstrike, hit - 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" shoot, blast - fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" grass - shoot down, of birds kneecap - shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning; "They kneecapped the industrialist" | | 7. | hit - encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" | | 8. | hit - gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"par - make a score (on a hole) equal to par shoot - score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal" convert - complete successfully; "score a penalty shot or free throw" convert - score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone; "Smith converted and his team won" gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win, gain, advance - obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; "The home team was gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference" kick - make a goal; "He kicked the extra point after touchdown" eagle - shoot in two strokes under par ace - score an ace against; "He aced his opponents" walk - obtain a base on balls get, have, make - achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day" | | 9. |  hit - 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"impress, strike, affect, move - have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" | | 10. |  hit - 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"attack, assail - launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week" slice - hit a ball so that it causes a backspin stroke - strike a ball with a smooth blow strike back, retaliate - make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing" hit, 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" | | 11. | hit - kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" burke - murder without leaving a trace on the body execute - murder in a planned fashion; "The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed" | | 12. |  hit - drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" smash - hit violently; "She smashed her car against the guard rail" | | 13. | hit - 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"arrive, come, get - reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" max out - reach a maximum; "I maxed out on all my credit cards" break even - attain a level at which there is neither gain nor loss, as in business, gambling, or a competitive sport | | 14. |  hit - 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"touch - make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" | | 15. | hit - consume to excess; "hit the bottle"ingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" | | 16. | hit - hit the intended target or goal | | 17. | hit - pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"approach - make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion; "I was approached by the President to serve as his adviser in foreign matters" |
hit verb 1. strike, beat, knock, punch, belt ( informal) deck ( slang) bang, batter, clip ( informal) slap, bash ( informal) sock ( slang) chin ( slang) smack, thump, clout ( informal) cuff, flog, whack, clobber ( slang) smite ( archaic) wallop ( informal) swat, lay one on ( slang) beat or knock seven bells out of ( informal) verb 2. collide with, run into, bump into, clash with, smash into, crash against, bang into, meet head-on verb 3. affect, damage, harm, ruin, devastate, overwhelm, touch, impact on, impinge on, leave a mark on, make an impact or impression on hit it off ( Informal) get on (well) with, take to, click ( slang) warm to, be on good terms, get on like a house on fire ( informal) hit on or upon something think up, discover, arrive at, guess, realize, invent, come upon, stumble on, chance upon, light upon, strike upon  Translations hit [hɪt] vt [ pt, pp hit] (= strike); golpear, pegar (= reach) [+ target] → alcanzar (= collide with) [+ car] → chocar contra; to hit the road (col) → largarse; to hit it off with sb → llevarse bien con algnhit back vi → defenderse;
 hit [hɪt] vt [ hit , pt , pp ] → frapper (= knock against); cogner (= reach) [+ target] → atteindre, toucher (= collide with) [+ car] → entrer en collision avec, heurter; to hit the headlines → être à la une des journaux; hit on vt fus [+ answer] → trouver (par hasard) [+ solution]; tomber sur (par hasard)
 hit [hɪt] [ hit , pt, pp ] vt → schlagen; to hit the headlines → Schlagzeilen machen; hit back hit vi to hit back at sb → jdn zurückschlagen ( fig); jdm Kontra geben
 hit [hɪt] vt [ pt hit, pp ] → colpire, picchiare (= knock against); battere (= reach) [+ target] → raggiungere (= collide with) [+ car] → urtare contro; to hit the headlines → far titolo; to hit the road ( col) → mettersi in cammino;
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