1.  hit(n = noun.act) - (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
is a kind of effort, exploit, feat
has particulars: base hit, safety
Derived forms verb hit₈, verb hit₁

2.  hit(n = noun.act) hitting, striking - the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"
is a kind of touch, touching
has particulars: contusion, crash, smash, bunt, fly, fly ball, ground ball, groundball, grounder, hopper, header, scorcher, screamer, plunk, plunker
Derived form verb hit₃

3.  hit(n = noun.act) bang, smash, smasher, strike - 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"
is a kind of success
has particulars: blockbuster, megahit, smash hit, sleeper

4.  hit(n = noun.event) collision - (physics) a 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"
is a kind of contact, impinging, striking
Derived form verb hit₂

5.  hit(n = noun.artifact) - a dose of a narcotic drug;
is a kind of dosage, dose

6.  hit(n = noun.act) - a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
is a kind of execution, murder, slaying
Derived form verb hit₁₁

7.  hit(n = noun.act) - a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
is a kind of connection, connexion, joining

1.  hit(v = verb.contact) - cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"
is one way to impel, propel
Derived forms noun hit₁, noun hitter₂, noun hitting₁
Sample sentences: The children hit the ball

2.  hit(v = verb.contact) collide with, impinge on, run into, strike - hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
is one way to touch
Antonym: miss
Derived forms noun hit₄, noun hitting₁
Sample sentences: The car hits the tree

3.  hit(v = verb.contact) - deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"
is one way to touch
Derived forms noun hit₂, noun hitting₁
Sample sentences: The fighter managed to hit his opponent

4.  hit(v = verb.motion) arrive at, attain, gain, make, reach - 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"
Sample sentences: They hit the water

5.  hit(v = verb.contact) 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"
is one way to affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on
Sample sentences: The wind storms hit the area with dust and dirt

6.  hit(v = verb.competition) pip, shoot - hit with a missile from a weapon;
is one way to injure, wound
Derived form noun hitting₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody

7.  hit(v = verb.possession) stumble - encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
is one way to come by, come into
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

8.  hit(v = verb.competition) rack up, score, tally - gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"
is one way to advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win
Derived form noun hit₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something

9.  hit(v = verb.perception) come to, strike - 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"
Sample sentences: Something ----s somebody

10.  hit(v = verb.competition) strike - 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"
is one way to assail, attack
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something

11.  hit(v = verb.social) bump off, dispatch, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay - kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
is one way to kill
Derived form noun hit₆
Sample sentences: Sam cannot hit Sue

12.  hit(v = verb.motion) strike - drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
is one way to displace, move
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP

13.  hit(v = verb.motion) attain, reach - 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"
is one way to arrive, come, get
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

14.  hit(v = verb.contact) strike - 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"
is one way to touch
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

15.  hit(v = verb.consumption) - consume to excess; "hit the bottle"
is one way to consume, have, ingest, take, take in
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

16.  hit(v = verb.competition) - hit the intended target or goal;
is one way to bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed, win
Derived form noun hitting₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

17.  hit(v = verb.communication) - pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"
is one way to approach
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

   It. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

   3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

1.  To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at). [1913 Webster]
"I think you have hit the mark." [1913 Webster]

2.  To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit. [1913 Webster]
"Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right." [1913 Webster]
"There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him." [1913 Webster]
"Whose saintly visage is too bright
To hit the sense of human sight." [1913 Webster]
"He scarcely hit my humor." [1913 Webster]

3.  To guess; to light upon or discover. Shak. [1913 Webster]

4.  To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point. [1913 Webster]

1.  To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on. [1913 Webster]
"If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?" [1913 Webster]
"Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them." [1913 Webster]

2.  To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck. [1913 Webster]
"And oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits." [1913 Webster]
"And millions miss for one that hits." [1913 Webster]

1.  A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. [1913 Webster]
"So he the famed Cilician fencer praised,
And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed." [1913 Webster]

2.  A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit; [1913 Webster]
"What late he called a blessing, now was wit,
And God's good providence, a lucky hit."

3.  A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit. [1913 Webster]

4.  A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon. [1913 Webster]

5.  A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit. [1913 Webster]

6.  An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin. [PJC]

hit, v. & n.
--v. (hitting; past and past part. hit)
1 tr. a strike with a blow or a missile. b (of a moving body) strike (the plane hit the ground). c reach (a target, a person, etc.) with a directed missile (hit the window with the ball).
2 tr. cause to suffer or affect adversely; wound (the loss hit him hard).
3 intr. (often foll. by at, against, upon) direct a blow.
4 tr. (often foll. by against, on) knock (a part of the body) (hit his head on the door-frame).
5 tr. light upon; get at (a thing aimed at) (he's hit the truth at last; tried to hit the right tone in his apology) (see hit on).
6 tr. colloq. a encounter (hit a snag). b arrive at (hit an all-time low; hit the town). c indulge in, esp. liquor etc. (hit the bottle).
7 tr. esp. US sl. rob or kill.
8 tr. occur forcefully to (the seriousness of the situation only hit him later).
9 tr. Sport a propel (a ball etc.) with a bat etc. to score runs or points. b score (runs etc.) in this way. c (usu. foll. by for) strike (a ball or a bowler) for so many runs (hit him for six).
10 tr. represent exactly.
--n.
1 a a blow; a stroke. b a collision.
2 a shot etc. that hits its target.
3 colloq. a popular success in entertainment.
4 a stroke of sarcasm, wit, etc.
5 a stroke of good luck.
6 esp. US sl. a a murder or other violent crime. b a drug injection etc.
7 a successful attempt.

Idiom:
hit and run cause (accidental or wilful) damage and escape or leave the scene before being discovered. hit-and-run attrib.adj. relating to or (of a person) committing an act of this kind. hit back retaliate. hit below the belt
1 esp. Boxing give a foul blow.
2 treat or behave unfairly. hit for six Brit. defeat in argument. hit the hay (or sack) colloq. go to bed. hit the headlines see HEADLINE. hit home make a salutary impression. hit it off (often foll. by with, together) agree or be congenial. hit list sl. a list of prospective victims. hit man (pl. hit men) sl. a hired assassin. hit the nail on the head state the truth exactly. hit on (or upon) find (what is sought), esp. by chance. hit-or-miss aimed or done carelessly. hit out deal vigorous physical or verbal blows (hit out at her enemies). hit-out n. Austral. sl. a brisk gallop. hit parade colloq. a list of the current best-selling records of popular music. hit the road (US trail) sl. depart. hit the roof see ROOF. hit up Cricket score (runs) energetically. hit wicket Cricket be out by striking the wicket with the bat etc. make a hit (usu. foll. by with) be successful or popular.

Derivative:
hitter n.

Etymology:
ME f. OE hittan f. ON hitta meet with, of unkn. orig.

N  success, successfulness, speed, advance, trump card, hit, stroke, score, lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke, direct hit, bull's eye, goal, point, touchdown, home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam, killing, windfall bold stroke, master stroke, ten strike, coup de maitre, checkmate, half the battle, prize, profit, continued success, good fortune, time well spent, advantage over, upper hand, whip hand, ascendancy, mastery, expugnation, conquest, victory, subdual, subjugation, triumph, proficiency, conqueror, victor, winner, master of the situation, master of the position, top of the heap, king of the hill, achiever, success, success story, succeeding, successful, prosperous, triumphant, flushed with success, crowned with success, victorious, on top, set up, in the ascendant, unbeaten (beat), well-spent, felicitous, effective, in full swing, successfully, well flying colors, in triumph, swimmingly, a merveille, beyond all hope, to some purpose, to good purpose, to one's heart's content, veni vidi vici, the day being one's own, one's star in the ascendant, omne tulit punctum, bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria, cede repugnanti cedendo victor abibis, chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune, dies faustus, l'art de vaincre est celui de mepriser la mort, omnia vincit amor, love conquers all, peace hath her victories no less renowned than war, the race by vigor not by vaunts is won, vincit qui patitur, vincit qui se vincit, The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

N  chance, lot, fate, luck, good luck, mascot, speculation, venture, stake, game of chance, mere shot, random shot, blind bargain, leap in the dark, pig in a poke, fluke, potluck, faro bank, flyer, limit, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, drawing lots, sortilegy, sortition, sortes, sortes Virgilianae, rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice, wager, bet, betting, gambling, the turf, gaming house, gambling house, betting house, bucket shop, gambling joint, totalizator, totalizer, hell, betting ring, dice, dice box, gambler, gamester, man of the turf, adventurer, dicer, fortuitous, unintentional, unintended, accidental, not meant, undesigned, purposed, unpremeditated, unforeseen, uncontemplated, never thought of, random, indiscriminate, promiscuous, undirected, aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless, without purpose, possible, unforeseeable, unpredictable, chancy, risky, speculative, dicey, randomly, by chance, fortuitously, unpredictably, unforeseeably, casually, unintentionally, unwittingly, en passant, by the way, incidentally, as it may happen, at random, at a venture, at haphazard, acierta errando, dextro tempore, fearful concatenation of circumstances, fortuitous combination of circumstances, le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespo, the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances, the fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms, God does not play dice with the universe, chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit, fate, equal chance, lottery, tombola, toss up, turn of the table, turn of the cards, hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate, cast of the dice, throw of the dice, heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune, sortes, sortes Virgilianae, probability, possibility, odds, long odds, run of luck, accidentalness, main chance, odds on, favorable odds, contingency, dependence (uncertainty), situation (circumstance), statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances, bookmaking, assurance, speculation, gaming, casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate, random, statistical, possible, unintentional, by chance, accidentally, by accident, casually, perchance, for aught one knows, as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it, as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen, as the case may be, grasps the skirts of happy chance, the accident of an accident, There but for the grace of God go I.

N  disapprobation, disapproval, improbation, disesteem, disvaluation, displacency, odium, dislike, dispraise, discommendation, blame, censure, obloquy, detraction, disparagement, depreciation, denunciation, condemnation, ostracism, black list, animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism, sardonic grin, sardonic laugh, sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo, bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment, satire, sneer, taunt, cavil, carping, censoriousness, hypercriticism, reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach, rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming, correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff, slap, slap on the face, home thrust, hit, frown, scowl, black look, diatribe, jeremiad, jeremiade, tirade, philippic, clamor, outcry, hue and cry, hiss, hissing, sibilance, sibilation, catcall, execration, chiding, upbraiding, exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely, hard words, cutting words, bitter words, evil-speaking, bad language, personality, disapproving, scandalized, disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative, defamatory, satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon, censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical, fastidious, sparing of praise, grudging praise, disapproved, chid, in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved, unblest, at a discount, exploded, weighed in the balance and found wanting, blameworthy, reprehensible, to blame, worthy of blame, answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of, bad, vicious, unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied, with a wry face, reproachfully, Int, it is too bad!, it won't do, it will never do!, marry come up!, Oh!, come!, 'sdeath!, forbid it Heaven!, God forbid, Heaven forbid!, out upon, fie upon it!, away with!, tut!, O tempora!, O mores!, shame!, fie, fie for shame!, out on you!, tell it not in Gath!.

N  impulse, sudden thought, impromptu, improvisation, inspiration, flash, spurt, improvisatore, creature of impulse, extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate, snap, improvised, improvisate, improvisatory, unpremeditated, unmeditated, improvise, unprompted, unguided, natural, unguarded, spontaneous, instinctive, extempore, extemporaneously, offhand, impromptu, a limproviste, improviso, on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion, impulse, impulsion, impetus, momentum, push, pulsion, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost, throw, explosion, propulsion, percussion, concussion, collision, occursion, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump, impact, elan, charge, beating, blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab, fillip, slam, bang, hit, whack, thwack, cuff, squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration, ruade, arietation, cut, thrust, lunge, yerk, carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe, hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail, ram, rammer, battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat, cant hook, cudgel, ax, dynamics, seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector, impelling, impulsive, impellent, booming, dynamic, dynamical, impelled, a hit, a very palpable hit.

VB  flash on the mind, say what comes uppermost, improvise, extemporize, give an impetus, impel, push, start, give a start to, set going, drive, urge, boom, thrust, prod, foin, cant, elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter, run against, bump against, butt against, knock one's head against, run one's head against, impinge, boost, bunt, carom, clip y, fan, fan out, jab, plug, strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash, punch, thwack, whack, hit hard, strike hard, swap, batter, dowse, baste, pelt, patter, buffet, belabor, fetch one a blow, poke at, pink, lunge, yerk, kick, calcitrate, butt, strike at, whip, come into a collision, enter into collision, collide, sideswipe, foul, fall foul of, run foul of, telescope, throw.

VB  arrive, get to, come to, come, reach, attain, come up with, come up to, overtake, make, fetch, complete, join, rejoin, light, alight, dismount, land, go ashore, debark, disembark, put in, put into, visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent, sit down, get to one's journey's end, make the land, be in at the death, come back, get back, come home, get home, return, come in, make one's appearance, drop in, detrain, deplane, outspan, de-orbit, come to hand, come at, come across, hit, come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon, meet, encounter, rencounter, come in contact.

base hit, hit home, hit it, hit it off, hit it up, hit list, hit man, hit on, hit or miss, hit parade, hit squad, hit the books, hit the ceiling, hit the deck, hit the dirt, hit the hay, hit the high spots, hit the jackpot, hit the nail on the head, hit the road, hit the roof, hit the sack, hit up, hit upon, pinch hit, scratch hit, smash hit, take a hit, three-base hit, two-base hit