hit

cause to move by striking

• “hit a ball”

hit against; come into sudden contact with

• “The car hit a tree”
• “He struck the table with his elbow”

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”

deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument

• “He hit her hard in the face”

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”

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”

hit with a missile from a weapon

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”

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”
• “;”

hit the intended target or goal

produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically

• “The pianist strikes a middle C”
• “strike”
• “on the keyboard”
• “her comments struck a sour note”

encounter by chance

• “I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant”

gain points in a game

• “The home team scored many times”
• “He hit a home run”
• “He hit .300 in the past season”

consume to excess

• “hit the bottle”

kill intentionally and with premeditation

• “The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered”

drive something violently into a location

• “he hit his fist on the table”
• “she struck her head on the low ceiling”

pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to

• “He tries to hit on women in bars”

(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)

• “he came all the way around on Williams”

the act of contacting one thing with another

• “repeated hitting raised a large bruise”
• “after three misses she finally got a hit”

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”

(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”

a dose of a narcotic drug

a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate

• “it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit”

a connection made via the internet to another website

• “WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide”