Hit
[n] a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"
[n] the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"
[n] a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
[n] a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
[n] a dose of a narcotic drug
[n] (physics) an 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"
[v] gain points; "The home team scored many times"
[v] 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"
[v] hit with a missile from a weapon
[v] hit the target or goal, as intended
[v] consume to excess; "hit the bottle"
[v] 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"
[v] 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"
[v] hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
[v] deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"
[v] cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"
[v] 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"
[v] reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made the plane"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
[v] 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"
[v] encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
[v] kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
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Synonyms
arrive at, attain, bang, bump off, collide with, collision, come to, dispatch, gain, hitting, impinge on, make, murder, polish off, rack up, reach, remove, run into, score, slay, smash, smasher, strike, strike, strike, strike, striking, stumble, tally
Related Terms
accomplish, accord, achieve, adverse criticism, affect, agree, ambush, animadversion, answer to, antimasque, antitoxin, approach, arrest the thoughts, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, aspersion, assail, assault, assent, assort with, attack, attain, attain to