eng: hit

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Meaning
means	(noun) (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" hit
means	(noun) the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" hitting, striking, hit
means	(noun) 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" hit, bang, strike, smash, smasher
means	(noun) (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" collision, hit
means	(noun) a dose of a narcotic drug hit
means	(noun) a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" hit
means	(noun) a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide" hit
means	(verb) cause to move by striking; "hit a ball" hit
means	(verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" hit, strike, run into, impinge on, collide with
means	(verb) deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face" hit
means	(verb) 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" gain, attain, reach, arrive at, hit, make
means	(verb) 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" hit, strike
means	(verb) hit with a missile from a weapon shoot, pip, hit
means	(verb) encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" hit, stumble
means	(verb) gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" score, hit, tally, rack up
means	(verb) 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" hit, come to, strike
means	(verb) 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" strike, hit
means	(verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" dispatch, polish off, slay, bump off, hit, off, murder, remove
means	(verb) drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling" hit, strike
means	(verb) 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" reach, hit, attain
means	(verb) 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" strike, hit
means	(verb) consume to excess; "hit the bottle" hit
means	(verb) hit the intended target or goal hit
means	(verb) pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" hit

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