hit

Meanings

• (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
  • "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
• the act of contacting one thing with another
  • "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"
  • "after three misses she finally got a hit"
• a conspicuous success
  • "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"
• (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
• a dose of a narcotic drug
• a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
  • "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
• a connection made via the internet to another website
  • "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
• cause to move by striking
  • "hit a ball"
• hit against; come into sudden contact with
  • "The car hit a tree"
• deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
  • "He hit her hard in the face"
• reach a destination, either real or abstract
  • "We hit Detroit by noon"
  • "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
• affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
  • "We were hit by really bad weather"
• hit with a missile from a weapon
• encounter by chance
• gain points in a game
  • "He hit a home run"
  • "He hit .300 in the past season"
• cause to experience suddenly
  • "An interesting idea hit her"
• make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
• kill intentionally and with premeditation
• drive something violently into a location
  • "he hit his fist on the table"
• reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
  • "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"
• produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically
• consume to excess
  • "hit the bottle"
• hit the intended target or goal
• pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
  • "He tries to hit on women in bars"

Synonyms

arrive at, attain, bang, bump off, collide with, collision, come to, dispatch, gain, hitting, impinge on, make, murder, off, pip, polish off, rack up, reach, remove, run into, score, shoot, slay, smash, smasher, strike, striking, stumble, tally