hit

Meaning

Verb

1. (physical, transitive) To strike.
2. (physical, transitive) To strike.
3. (intransitive, physical) To strike.
4. (physical, transitive) To strike.
5. (physical, slang, transitive) To strike.
6. (physical, transitive) To strike.
7. (ambitransitive, figuratively, physical) To strike.
8. (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
9. (colloquial, transitive) To switch on or switch off (lights).
10. (informal, transitive) To commence playing.
11. (colloquial, transitive) To briefly visit.
12. (informal, transitive) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
13. (informal, transitive) To attain, to achieve.
14. (intransitive) To attain, to achieve.
15. To attain, to achieve.
16. (transitive) To affect negatively.
17. (figuratively) To attack.
18. (transitive) To make a play.
19. (intransitive) To make a play.
20. To make a play.
21. (transitive) To use; to connect to.
22. (US, slang, transitive) To have sex with.
23. (US, slang, transitive) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
24. (transitive) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
25. (transitive) To work out.

Noun

1. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
2. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
3. (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
4. An attack on a location, person or people.
5. A collision of a projectile with the target.
6. A collision of a projectile with the target.
7. (Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
8. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
9. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
10. The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
11. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
12. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
13. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
14. A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
15. A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Adj

Very successful.

Pron

It.

Opposite of

miss

Synonyms

strike

beat

knock

blow

punch

👊

slap

pound

💷

smack

bang

stroke

kill

🔪🩸👤

touch

bump

whip

smite

shoot

hammer

🔨

catch

smash

success

beat up

attain

attack

👊

collide

thrash

reach

run across

thump

impact

run into

slam

score

box

📦

tap

chop

flog

encounter

move

hurt

rap

fight

find

🔍

wallop

swipe

bash

lash

crash

clout

poke

collide with

Translations

frapper

golpear

colpire

schlagen

pegar

bater

battre

slaan

golpe

picchiare

treffen

battere

raken

successo

Treffer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hitten

Inherited from Old English: hittan

Cognate with Icelandic: hitta

Cognate with Danish: hitte

Cognate with Latin: caedō

Cognate with Albanian: qit

Inherited from Middle English: hit

Inherited from Old English: hit

Cognate with Dutch: het

In summary

From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognates
Cognate with Danish hitte (“to find”), Faroese, Icelandic, Swedish hitta (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk hitta, hitte (“to meet; to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).

Sentences

With clenched fist , he hit the table .

Their parody of " Baby It's Cold Outside ", recorded with June Carter , became a hit .