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Sounds | hhih't |
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Rhymes | acquit, admit, affectionate, and 178 more rhymes in iht at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball). |
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Examples | "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" |
Category | baseball, baseball game, ball |
Narrower | base hit, safety, bingle |
Broader | deed, feat, effort, exploit |
Verbs | hit; hit |
Meaning | The act of contacting one thing with another. |
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Examples | "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" |
Synonyms | hitting, striking |
Narrower | contusion; crash, smash; bunt; fly, fly ball; grounder, ground ball, groundball, hopper; header; scorcher, screamer; plunk, plunker |
Broader | touch, touching |
Verbs | hit |
Meaning | A conspicuous success. |
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Examples | "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career" |
Synonyms | smash, smasher, strike, bang |
Narrower | blockbuster, megahit, smash hit; sleeper |
Broader | success |
Meaning | (physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together. |
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Synonyms | collision |
Category | physics, physical science, natural philosophy |
Broader | contact, impinging, striking |
Verbs | hit |
Meaning | A dose of a narcotic drug. |
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Broader | dose |
Meaning | A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate. |
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Examples | "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" |
Broader | murder, slaying, execution |
Verbs | hit |
Meaning | A connection made via the internet to another website. |
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Examples | "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide" |
Broader | joining, connection, connexion |
Meaning | Cause to move by striking. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Model | The children hit the ball |
Examples | "hit a ball" |
Narrower | play; foul; cannon; clap; ground out; toe; shank; pitch; fly; snap; whang; undercut; putt; heel; toe; bunker; bounce; backhand; pop; follow through; shell; ground; ground; top; pull; kill; kill; connect; drive; drive; hole, hole out; bunt, drag a bunt; snick; racket; dribble, carry; slice; hook; single; double; triple; smash; shoot; volley; croquet; loft |
Broader | propel, impel |
Nouns | hitter; hitting; hit |
Meaning | Hit against. Come into sudden contact with. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Model | The car hits the tree |
Examples | "The car hit a tree" |
Synonyms | strike, impinge on, run into, collide with |
Narrower | ping; spang, bang; rear-end; broadside; connect; spat; thud; bottom; bottom out; bump, knock; run into, bump into, jar against, butt against, knock against; collide, clash |
Broader | touch |
Contrary | miss |
Similar to | strike |
Nouns | hitting; hit |
Meaning | Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Model | The wind storms hit the area with dust and dirt |
Examples | "We were hit by really bad weather" |
Synonyms | strike |
Broader | affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch |
Similar to | strike, hit |
Meaning | Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody with something |
Model | The fighter managed to hit his opponent |
Examples | "He hit her hard in the face" |
Entailed by | indent, dent; beat, beat up, work over |
Narrower | clap; slam, bang; lam into, tear into, lace into, pitch into, lay into; kick; swipe; smite; hook; swat; sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash; bean; pop; get, catch; conk; cosh; brain; smash, nail, boom, blast; crack; sandbag, stun; bat; bat; bat; cut; thump, pound, poke; smack, thwack; belt; punch, plug; slug, slog, swig; whack, wham, whop, wallop; pummel, pommel, biff; buffet, buff; box; club, bludgeon; cudgel |
Broader | touch |
Nouns | hit, hitting |
Meaning | Reach a destination, either real or abstract. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They hit the water |
Examples | "We hit Detroit by noon"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" |
Synonyms | reach, make, attain, arrive at, gain |
Entails | travel, go, move, locomote |
Narrower | catch up; scale, surmount; breast; access, get at; peak; bottom out; top out; summit; top; make; find; culminate; get through, come through; ground, run aground |
Similar to | make |
Meaning | Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "The thermometer hit 100 degrees" |
Synonyms | reach, attain |
Narrower | max out; break even |
Broader | arrive, get, come |
Meaning | Hit with a missile from a weapon. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | shoot, pip |
Entailed by | machine gun |
Narrower | gun down; grass; kneecap |
Broader | injure, wound |
Similar to | strike, hit; shoot; shoot, pip |
Nouns | hitting |
Meaning | Cause to experience suddenly. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "An interesting idea hit her" |
Synonyms | strike, come to |
Similar to | affect, impress, move, strike |
Meaning | Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | strike |
Narrower | slice; chop; stroke; retaliate, strike back |
Broader | attack, assail |
Similar to | shoot, hit, pip; hit, strike |
Meaning | Hit the intended target or goal. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Entails | aim, take, train, take aim, direct |
Broader | succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods |
Nouns | hitting |
Meaning | Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | strike |
Broader | touch |
Meaning | Encounter by chance. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | stumble |
Broader | come by |
Meaning | Gain points in a game. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" |
Synonyms | score, tally, rack up |
Entails | compete, vie, contend |
Caused by | drive in |
Narrower | par; shoot; convert; convert; convert; homer; kick; eagle; hole up; ace; walk; equalize, equalise, get even; have, get, make |
Broader | gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground |
Nouns | hit |
Meaning | Consume to excess. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "hit the bottle" |
Broader | consume, ingest, take in, take, have |
Meaning | Kill intentionally and with premeditation. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | Sam cannot hit Sue |
Synonyms | murder, slay, dispatch, bump off, polish off, remove |
Narrower | burke; execute |
Broader | kill |
Nouns | hit |
Meaning | Drive something violently into a location. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "he hit his fist on the table" |
Synonyms | strike |
Narrower | smash |
Broader | move, displace |
Meaning | Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "He tries to hit on women in bars" |
Broader | approach |