1. (noun)hit (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
"he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
2. (noun)hit, hitting, striking the act of contacting one thing with another
"repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"
3. (noun)hit, smash, smasher, strike, bang 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"
4. (noun)collision, hit (physics) a briefevent in which two or more bodies come together
"the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"
9. (verb)hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with hit against; come into sudden contact with
"The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
10. (verb)hit deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument "He hit her hard in the face"
11. (verb)reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain 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"
12. (verb)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"
13. (verb)shoot, hit, pip hit with a missile from a weapon
14. (verb)stumble, hit encounter by chance "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
15. (verb)score, hit, tally, rack up gain points in a game "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"
16. (verb)hit, strike, come to 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"
17. (verb)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"
18. (verb)murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove kill intentionally and with premeditation "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
19. (verb)hit, strike drive something violently into a location "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
20. (verb)reach, hit, attain 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"
21. (verb)strike, 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"
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