| NOUN | act | hit | (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball) |
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| act | hit, hitting, striking | the act of contacting one thing with another | |
| act | hit, smash, smasher, strike, bang | a conspicuous success | |
| event | hit, collision | (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | |
| artifact | hit | a dose of a narcotic drug | |
| act | hit | a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate | |
| act | hit | a connection made via the internet to another website | |
| VERB | contact | hit | cause to move by striking |
| contact | hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with | hit against | |
| contact | hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument | |
| motion | hit, reach, make, attain, arrive at, gain | reach a destination / destination, either real or abstract | |
| contact | hit, strike | affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | |
| competition | hit, shoot, pip | hit with a missile from a weapon | |
| possession | hit, stumble | encounter by chance | |
| competition | hit, score, tally, rack up | gain points in a game / game / game | |
| perception | hit, strike, come to | cause to experience suddenly | |
| competition | hit, strike | make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | |
| social | hit, murder, slay, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove | kill intentionally and with premeditation | |
| motion | hit, strike | drive something violently into a location | |
| motion | hit, reach, attain | reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | |
| contact | hit, strike | produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically | |
| competition | hit | hit the intended target or goal | |
| communication | hit | pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to |
| Sounds | hhih't | |
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| Rhymes | acquit ... writ: 187 rhymes with iht... | |
| Meaning | (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball). | |
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| Example | "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" | |
| Category | baseball, baseball game, ball | A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players |
| Narrower | base hit, safety | (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely |
| Broader | feat, effort, exploit | A notable achievement |
| Spanish | golpe, jit | |
| Verbs | hit | gain points in a game / game / game |
| hit | cause to move by striking | |
| Meaning | The act of contacting one thing with another. | |
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| Examples |
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| Synonyms | hitting, striking | |
| Narrower | bunt | (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat |
| contusion | The action of bruising | |
| crash, smash | The act of colliding with something | |
| fly, fly ball | (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air | |
| grounder, ground ball, groundball, hopper | (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | |
| header | (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head | |
| plunk, plunker | (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | |
| scorcher, screamer | A very hard hit ball | |
| Broader | touch, touching | The act of putting two things together with no space between them |
| Spanish | apaleamiento, golpeo | |
| Verbs | hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument |
| Meaning | A conspicuous success. | |
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| Example | "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career" | |
| Synonyms | smash, smasher, strike, bang | |
| Narrower | blockbuster, megahit, smash hit | An unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) |
| sleeper | An unexpected hit | |
| Broader | success | An attainment that is successful |
| Spanish | exitazo, éxito, golpe, triunfar, triunfo | |
| Catalan | cop, èxit, xoc | |
| Meaning | (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together. | |
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| Synonym | collision | |
| Category | physics, natural philosophy | The science of matter and energy and their interactions |
| Broader | contact, impinging, striking | The physical coming together of two or more things |
| Spanish | choque, colisión, golpe, trompada | |
| Catalan | col·lisió, impacte, topada, xoc | |
| Verbs | hit | hit against |
| Meaning | A dose of a narcotic drug. | |
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| Broader | dose, dosage | A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time |
| Spanish | chute, pico | |
| Catalan | pico, xut | |
| Meaning | A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate. | |
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| Example | "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" | |
| Broader | murder, slaying, execution | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being |
| Spanish | asesinato mafioso, asesinato, golpe, homicidio | |
| Catalan | cop | |
| Verbs | hit | kill intentionally and with premeditation |
| Meaning | A connection made via the internet to another website. | |
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| Example | "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide" | |
| Broader | joining, connection, connexion | The act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) |
| Spanish | acceso | |
| Meaning | Cause to move by striking. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Model | The children hit the ball | |
| Example | "hit a ball" | |
| Narrower | backhand | hit a tennis ball backhand |
| bounce | hit something so that it bounces | |
| bunker | hit a golf ball into a bunker | |
| bunt, drag a bunt | hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance | |
| cannon | make a cannon | |
| clap | strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise | |
| connect | hit or play a ball successfully | |
| croquet | Drive away by hitting with one's ball, "croquet the opponent's ball" | |
| double | hit a two-base hit | |
| dribble, carry | propel, "Carry the ball" | |
| drive | Hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally | |
| drive | strike with a driver, as in teeing off | |
| fly | hit a fly | |
| follow through | carry a stroke to natural completion after hitting or releasing a ball | |
| foul | hit a foul ball | |
| ground | hit onto the ground | |
| ground | hit a groundball | |
| ground out | make an out by hitting the ball on the ground | |
| heel | strike with the heel of the club | |
| hole, hole out | hit the ball into the hole | |
| hook | hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left | |
| kill | hit with great force | |
| kill | hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games / games | |
| loft | Kick or strike high in the air | |
| pitch | hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin | |
| play | Shoot or hit in a particular manner | |
| pop | hit a pop-fly | |
| pull | hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing | |
| putt | strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter | |
| racket | hit (a ball) with a racket | |
| shank | hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction | |
| shell | hit the pitches of hard and regularly | |
| shoot | Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective | |
| single | hit a single | |
| slice | hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction | |
| smash | hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke | |
| snap | put in play with a snap | |
| snick | hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat | |
| toe | hit (a golf ball) with the toe of the club | |
| toe | Drive (a golf ball) with the toe of the club | |
| top | strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin | |
| triple | hit a three-base hit | |
| undercut | strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot | |
| volley | hit before it touches the ground | |
| whang | propel or hit with force | |
| Broader | propel, impel | Cause to move forward with force |
| Spanish | chutar, pegar | |
| Catalan | colpejar, pegar, xutar | |
| Nouns | hit | (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball) |
| hitter | someone who hits | |
| hitting | the act of contacting one thing with another | |
| 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 | |
| Example | "The car hit a tree" | |
| Synonyms | strike, impinge on, run into, collide with | |
| Narrower | bottom | strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom |
| bottom out | hit the ground | |
| broadside | collide with the broad side / side of | |
| bump, knock | knock against with force or violence | |
| collide, clash | crash together with violent impact | |
| connect | Land on or hit solidly | |
| glance | Hit at an angle | |
| ping | hit with a pinging noise | |
| rear-end | collide with the rear end of | |
| run into, bump into, jar against, butt against, knock against | collide violently with an obstacle | |
| spang, bang | leap, jerk, bang | |
| spat | strike with a sound / sound like that of falling rain | |
| stub | strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object | |
| thud | strike with a dull sound | |
| Broader | touch | make physical contact with, come in contact with |
| Opposite | miss | fail to reach |
| Similar to | strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon |
| Spanish | chocar, colisionar, dar, golpear, pegar | |
| Catalan | copejar, pegar | |
| Nouns | hit | (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together |
| hitting | the act of contacting one thing with another | |
| 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 | |
| Example | "He hit her hard in the face" | |
| Entailed by | beat, beat up, work over | Give a beating to |
| indent, dent | make a depression into | |
| Narrower | bat | strike with, or as if with a baseball bat |
| bat | Use a bat | |
| bat | Have a turn at bat | |
| bean | hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball | |
| belt | deliver a blow to | |
| box | hit with the fist | |
| brain | hit on the head | |
| buffet, buff | strike, beat repeatedly | |
| clap | strike with the flat of the hand | |
| club, bludgeon | strike with a club or a bludgeon | |
| conk | hit, especially on the head | |
| cosh | hit with a cosh, usually on the head | |
| crack | hit forcefully | |
| cudgel, fustigate | strike with a cudgel | |
| cut | hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction | |
| get, catch | reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot | |
| hook | hit with a hook | |
| kick | strike with the foot | |
| lam into, tear into, lace into, pitch into, lay into | hit violently, as in an attack | |
| pop | hit or strike | |
| pummel, pommel, biff | strike, usually with the fist | |
| punch, plug | deliver a quick blow to | |
| sandbag, stun | hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag | |
| slam, bang | strike violently | |
| slug, slog, swig | strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat | |
| smack, thwack | deliver a hard blow to | |
| smash, nail, boom, blast | hit hard | |
| smite | inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon | |
| sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash | hit hard | |
| swat | hit swiftly with a violent blow | |
| swipe | strike with a swiping motion | |
| thump, pound, poke | hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | |
| whack, wham, whop, wallop | hit hard | |
| Broader | touch | make physical contact with, come in contact with |
| Spanish | batir, dar, golpear, pegar, tustar | |
| Catalan | batre, colpejar, copejar, pegar-se, pegar, tustar | |
| Nouns | hit, hitting | the act of contacting one thing with another |
| 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 | |
| Example | "We were hit by really bad weather" | |
| Synonym | strike | |
| Broader | affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch | Have an effect upon |
| Similar to | strike, hit | make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target |
| 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 | Shoot with a machine gun |
| Narrower | grass | shoot down, of birds |
| gun down | strike down or shoot down | |
| kneecap | shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning | |
| Broader | injure, wound | Cause injuries or bodily harm to |
| Similar to | blast, shoot | Fire a shot |
| shoot, pip | kill by firing a missile | |
| strike, hit | make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | |
| Spanish | acertar, derribar, disparar, pegar | |
| Catalan | disparar, ferir, pegar | |
| Nouns | hitting | the act of contacting one thing with another |
| Meaning | encounter by chance. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonym | stumble | |
| Broader | come by, come into | Obtain, especially accidentally |
| Spanish | dar con, encontrarse, tropezar con, tropezar | |
| Catalan | creuar-se, encertar, ensopegar, trobar | |
| Meaning | gain points in a game / game / game. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Examples |
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| Synonyms | score, tally, rack up | |
| Entails | compete, vie, contend | compete for something |
| Caused by | drive in | Cause a run or runner to be scored |
| Narrower | ace | score an ace against |
| convert | score (a spare) | |
| convert | complete successfully | |
| convert | score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone | |
| eagle | Shoot in two strokes under par | |
| equalize, equalise, get even | compensate | |
| have, get, make | achieve a point or goal | |
| hole up | score a hole in one | |
| homer | hit a home run | |
| kick | make a goal | |
| par | make a score (on a hole) equal to par | |
| shoot | score | |
| walk | Obtain a base on balls | |
| Broader | gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground | Obtain advantages, such as points, etc. |
| Spanish | anotar, marcar | |
| Catalan | anotar, marcar | |
| Nouns | hit | (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball) |
| Meaning | Cause to experience suddenly. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody | |
| Example | "An interesting idea hit her" | |
| Synonyms | strike, come to | |
| Similar to | affect, impress, move, strike | Have an emotional or cognitive impact / impact upon |
| Spanish | dar, ocurrir, toparse, topars | |
| Catalan | donar-se, ocórrer, topar | |
| 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 | |
| Synonym | strike | |
| Narrower | chop | hit sharply |
| retaliate, strike back | make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | |
| slice | hit a ball so that it causes a backspin | |
| stroke | strike a ball with a smooth blow | |
| Broader | attack, assail | launch an attack or assault on |
| Similar to | hit, strike | affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely |
| shoot, hit, pip | hit with a missile from a weapon | |
| Spanish | golpear | |
| 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, off, polish off, remove | |
| Narrower | burke | murder without leaving a trace on the body |
| execute | murder in a planned fashion | |
| Broader | kill | Cause to die |
| Spanish | asesinar, borrar, cargarse, despachar, echarse, eliminar, matar, matar violentamente, quitar de enmedio | |
| Catalan | assassinar, carregar-se, eliminar, treure de'n mig | |
| Nouns | hit | a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate |
| Meaning | Drive something violently into a location. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Example | "he hit his fist on the table" | |
| Synonym | strike | |
| Narrower | smash | hit violently |
| Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
| Meaning | Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The thermometer hit 100 degrees" | |
| Synonyms | reach, attain | |
| Narrower | break even | attain a level at which there is neither gain nor loss, as in business, gambling, or a competitive sport |
| max out | reach a maximum | |
| Broader | arrive, get, come | reach a destination |
| Spanish | alcanzar, llegar a, lograr | |
| Catalan | assolir | |
| Meaning | produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | strike | |
| Broader | touch | make physical contact with, come in contact with |
| Spanish | tocar | |
| Catalan | copejar, pegar-se, pegar, topar, tustar, xocar | |
| 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 | Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards |
| Broader | succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods | attain success or reach a desired goal / goal |
| Spanish | pegar | |
| Catalan | pegar | |
| Nouns | hitting | the act of contacting one thing with another |
| Meaning | pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "He tries to hit on women in bars" | |
| Broader | approach | make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion |
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