Definition of hits

	Definition of hit is the dictionary form of hits Definition of hit hit has definitions from the fields of law,medicine,baseball,sport,military,criminal law,pharmacology,arms
1	[ verb ] cause to move by striking Examples "hit a ball"
2	[ verb ] hit against; come into sudden contact with Synonyms strike impinge_on collide_with run_into Examples "The car hit a tree" "He struck the table with his elbow"
3	[ verb ] affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely Synonyms strike Examples "We were hit by really bad weather" "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager" "The earthquake struck at midnight"
4	[ verb ] deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument Examples "He hit her hard in the face"
5	[ verb ] reach a point in time, or a certain state or level Synonyms reach attain Examples "The thermometer hit 100 degrees" "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
6	[ verb ] reach a destination, either real or abstract Synonyms reach arrive_at gain make attain Examples "We hit Detroit by noon" "The water reached the doorstep" "We barely made the plane" "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
7	[ verb ] (arms) hit with a missile from a weapon Synonyms shoot pip
8	[ verb ] cause to experience suddenly Synonyms come_to strike Examples "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"
9	[ verb ] (military) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target Synonyms strike Examples "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 5-2"
10	[ noun ] (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball) Examples "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
11	[ verb ] hit the target or goal, as intended
12	[ verb ] produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically Synonyms strike Examples "The pianist strikes a middle C" "strike `z' on the keyboard" "her comments struck a sour note"
13	[ verb ] come upon, as if by accident; meet with Synonyms find encounter bump chance happen Examples "We find this idea in Plato" "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here" "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
14	[ verb ] encounter by chance Synonyms stumble Examples "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
15	[ verb ] (sport) gain points in a game Synonyms score rack_up tally Examples "The home team scored many times" "He hit a home run" "He hit .300 in the past season"
16	[ verb ] consume to excess Examples "hit the bottle"
17	[ noun ] a act of hitting one thing with another Synonyms striking hitting Examples "repeated hitting raised a large bruise" "after three misses she finally got a hit"
18	[ noun ] a conspicuous success Synonyms smash strike smasher bang Examples "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"
19	[ noun ] a connection made via the internet to another website Examples "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
20	[ verb ] (criminal law) kill intentionally and with premeditation Synonyms murder bump_off polish_off dispatch remove slay Examples "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
21	[ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology) a dose of a narcotic drug
22	[ verb ] drive something violently into a location Synonyms strike Examples "he hit his fist on the table" "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
23	[ verb ] pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to Examples "He tries to hit on women in bars"
24	[ noun ] (physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together Synonyms collision Examples "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"
25	[ noun ] (law,criminal law) a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate Examples "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
*	Rhymes with its it's it's its fits sits wits lits writs ritz pits kits wit's knits britts brits glitz spitz blitz quits spits grits tippets nimitz rickets willets immaculate auschwitz stieglitz credit's plaudits spirits profits credits horowitz slivovitz Phonetic and Homophones HH IH1 T S Similar Spelling hiatus Hites hi-tech Hitz To share this definition click "text" (Facebook, Twitter) or "link" (blog, mail) then paste text link
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