Word Finder - hit

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A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

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The hit was very slight.

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Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.

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An attack on a location, person or people.

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A collision of a projectile with the target.

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A match found by searching a computer system or search engine

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A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

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An approximately correct answer in a test set.

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The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

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The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.

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A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

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Where am I going to get my next hit?

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A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

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A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

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a happy hit

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A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.

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A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

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(heading, physical) To strike.

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To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

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I hit the jackpot.

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To switch on.

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Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!

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To briefly visit.

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We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.

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To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

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You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.  We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.

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(heading) To attain, to achieve.

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To affect negatively.

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The economy was hit by a recession.  The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.

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To attack.

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(heading, games) To make a play.

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To use; to connect to.

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The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.

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To have sex with.

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I'd hit that.

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To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

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Very successful.

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The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.

A train hit their car.

You hit the nail again.

Sleep seemed unlikely, but it must have happened shortly after her head hit the pillow.

And then it hit her.

Two caught her before she hit the ground.

I'd never hit you.

Pierre noticed that after every ball that hit the redoubt, and after every loss, the liveliness increased more and more.

He threw the canteen and it hit Two's cheek.

Bordeaux hit the sand on his feet, a rifle in his hands.

Then I'll hit the road once more.

She wanted to hit him.

Cade's' chair scraped the floor and his boot heels hit the floor twice before he grabbed her waist.

Brandon hit the breaks, and the car started to slide sideways... directly into the path of the Mack truck.

She floored the car's accelerator, closed her eyes, and prayed she hit him.

Denton's head jerked back and hit the wall with a sharp crack.

She knew the moment the second spell hit.

At first she was too stunned to respond, and then passion hit her like the fiery breath of a dragon.

She hit the soft sand and he was instantly on top of her, wrestling the whip from her hand.

He hit a comfortable pace and stayed there as he peddled past the cemetery and the open meadows where a herd of elk grazed near the river to his left, standing at attention near the edge of the tall cottonwoods that lined the bank.

We'll be a harder target to hit if we're separated, Brady said.

Once it hit water, it would inflate, and the water-breather would activate.

The drinks arrived in glasses better designed for raising fish than serving alcohol—a sure hit with the traveling salesmen.

Do you think he will hit her again if he finds out?

It bounced off the wall and hit the floor, parts flying off as it slid across the hardwood floor.

The chances are slim to none that a tornado will hit this cabin, as sheltered as it is by the hills.

Just when I think the light is green, you hit the breaks and sling out a caution sign.

No one had ever dared hit him before.

The second spell hadn't hit yet, or he wouldn't be on his feet.

The cool night hit his skin simultaneously with the warning he least wanted to sense.

She got hit by a car.

For a moment, she was certain the newcomer was going to hit the teen.

I can cover up the girls who accidentally get hit by cars.

He felt like he'd been hit by a hurricane.

She groaned as hunger and need hit her hard once more, the way it did the last time he bit her.

You can't hit on me or anything else.

The sudden images of Jonny sending in a hit squad on Xander or blowing up his condo went through her mind.

Jessi felt like she'd been mentally hit by a truck.

As we never can hit the bull's eye, we must have literally endless opportunities of aiming at it, so as to get indefinitely nearer the central spot.

The middle Euphrates, from Samsat to Hit, is to-day an avenue of ruins, of which only the more conspicuous or important have been indicated here.

Hit stands almost at the head of the alluvial deposit, about 550 m.

At Hit the river is from 30 to 35 ft.

The first of these canals, taken off on the right bank of the river a little below Hit, followed the extreme skirt of the alluvium the whole way to the Persian Gulf near Basra, and thus formed an outer barrier, strengthened at intervals with watch-towers and fortified posts, to protect the cultivated land of the Sawad against the incursions of the desert Arabs.

Dholahtaf, but is now known as the Cherra-Saadeh, and is in the popular tradition said to have been excavated by a man from Basra at the behest of a woman of Hit whom he desired to make his wife.

At the present time the river is navigated by sailing craft of some size from Hit downward.

They crushed a civilization already hard hit; and it took two or three centuries for the artistic spirit, instinct in the Aegean area, and probably preserved in suspended animation by the survival of Aegean racial elements, to blossom anew.

At the Calydonian boar-hunt her arrows were the first to hit the monster, for which its head and hide were given her by Meleager.

It is true that in 1823 Fraunhofer, inspired by his observations upon gratings, had very nearly hit the mark.'

The eye is small, with round pupil, which is so much contracted by the light when the snake is taken out of the water that the animal becomes blinded and is unable to hit any object it attempts to strike.

Its main characteristic is perhaps best hit off by Charles Lamb when he calls it "genteel."

So sudden had been their onset that very few were hit until the infantry had been passed; then the latter, recovering from the shock, turned and fired into the cavalry from behind, whilst a whole fresh division of French horsemen charged them in flank.