Hit

Definition: Hit

Hit

Noun

1. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit".

2. A act of hitting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit".

3. A conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career".

4. An event in which two or more bodies come together.

5. A dose of a narcotic drug.

6. A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit".

Verb

1. Cause to move by striking; "hit a ball".

2. Hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow".

3. 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".

4. Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face".

5. Reach a destination, either real or abstract; "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".

6. 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".

7. Hit with a missile from a weapon.

8. 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".

9. 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".

10. : hit the target or goal, as intended.

11. : 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".

12. : encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant".

13. : gain points; "The home team scored many times".

14. : consume to excess; "hit the bottle".

15. : kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

19th Century Satire

Language

Literature

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

HIT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Hit

Arrival

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.

Chance 2

Noun: chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate; (necessity); 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.

Disapprobation

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.

Impulse

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; (attack); whip c. (punish).

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.

Success

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; (acquisition).

Crosswords: Hit

Czech (blockbuster, hit, hit song), Dutch (nag, pony), German (hit), Hungarian (affiance, belief, conviction, creed, faith, persuasion, religion, troth), Norwegian (above, here, up, uphill, upwards), Spanish (hit), Swedish (here, hit, hit song, hither, this way).

Then hit yourself over the head with a baseball bat, would you please (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

Some lucky boy's about to hit the honey pot. The winner will receive an evening of my company (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Can I borrow your towel, my car just hit a water buffalo (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman)

Stop trying to hit me and hit me (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You're over-paid, hit the road (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

Just go back and hit 'em up style (Hit 'em up Style (Oops!); performing artist: Blu Cantrell)

COME HIT ME WITH THE FLAVOR (Hit Me Off; performing artist: New Edition)

Hit Me With Your Best Shot (HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT; performing artist: Pat Benatar)

The hit maker shorty (Playas Gon' Play; performing artist: 3LW)

Can pack our bags and hit the sky (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words. (references; author: Woody Allen)

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. (references; author: unknown)

Don't drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill your drink. (references; author: unknown)

Some people just don't take advice, they have to hit their own head off the wall to believe it will hurt! (references; author: unknown)

Life is a roller coaster. You can either scream every time you hit a bump, or you can throw your hands up in the air and enjoy it. (references; author: unknown)

Your Hit Parade (1974)

Hit Lady (1974)

Hit! (1973)

Hit Man (1972)

Cross-Canada Hit Parade (1955)

Hit Me Off (performing artist: New Edition)

Hit Me With Your Best Shot (performing artist: Pat Benatar)

Hit The Road Jack (performing artist: Ray Charles)

Hit the Road Jack (performing artist: The Residents)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• HIT Entertainment PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Hit Men: Power Brokers & Fast Money Inside the Music Business. (reference)

• Kid Who Only Hit Homers (reference)

• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 2003 Block Calendar: Questions and Answers from the Hit ABC TV Show (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hit Parade Newsletter (reference)

• Hit Parader (reference)

• Hit Sheet (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Transworld Surf - Hit & Run (reference)

• Denise Austin - Hit the Spot:Totally Firm (reference)

• Hit And Runway (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hit Box 1 [BOX SET] (reference)

• Walk Tall: The Mercury Hit Singles 1963-75 (reference)

• Kiri! Her Greatest Hit Live [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thomson piano wire sounding machine as mounted on USS TUSCARORA This machine was invented by Sir William Thomson, a.k.a. Lord Kelvin Made use of heavy weight and piano wire - line paid out until weight hit bottom This machine revolutionized deepsea sounding Variations would be used for over 50 years. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Cleaning up after a tornado hit the camp in Columbus Carl Aslakson later wrote that this cleared his inventory of long-lost items Triangulation party of Carl I. Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

During the early 1980s, NSSL and University of Oklahoma researchers place TOTO (TOtable Tornado Observatory) in the path of an on-coming tornado. It would measure temperature, pressure, relative humidity etc. It would record the data on tape inside the 55 gallon drum. TOTO was hit by a small tornado only once in April, 1985. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Seastar doen't know what hit it -- arm of a NURP submersible. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

The Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER enroute to Okinawa where it sustained a kamikaze hit but survived to enter Tokyo Bay at the end of hostilities. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Ulul after direct hit by Typhoon Amy. People are milling about because their homes were destroyed. Credit: Small World.

Remains of coconut plantation after direct hit by Typhoon Amy. Credit: Small World.

The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb, Dec. 7, 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace (AH-5). (Navy archive photo).

USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning furiously, Dec. 7, 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb. At left, men on the stern of USS Tennessee (BB-43) are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from the.

Captioned measured drawing of the 1984 and 1986 planimetric views of the top deck. The 1986 plan adds objects on the deck that were not originally recorded during the 1984 project. Delineated by Larry V. Nordby, Jerry L. Livingston, 1984; Larry V. Nordby, 1986. Drawings photographically reproduced and spliced onto the HAER Sheet by Robbyn Jackson, 1991. (Reproduction Number: HAER HI-13, sheet 3 of 4) This 1916 battleship is the final resting place for many of the 1,177 USS Arizona crewmen who died on December 7, 1941--the day of the Japanese air attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Hit by a 1,760-pound bomb shortly after 8:00 a.m., the ship sank in less than nine minutes, leaving very little time for the crew to escape. By the end of the attack, the Pacific Fleet had lost many ships and more than two thousand personnel. The attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II. The USS Arizona received National Historic Landmark designation in 1989. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Miss Woodhouse, I am quite concerned, I am sure you hit your foot

But she had not long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face

"I could hit a dozen with a bread roll from where I’m sitting."

One little grey bird, with a white breast, Pearl was almost sure, had been hit by a pebble, and fluttered away with a broken wing

With his first conjecture, he hit Marius

That was a sound to hear but if you were hit then you would feel a pain

And now a light truck approached, and as it came near, the driver saw the turtle and swerved to hit it.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Remove any sharp or solid objects that the person might hit during the seizure. (references)

In ESWL, shock waves that are created outside of the body travel through the skin and body tissues until they hit the dense stones. (references)

Possibly because the nerve cells conveying pain sensations are hardest hit, or are exquisitely sensitized by the virus attack, pain is the principal persistent complication of shingles. (references)

Business

There are approximately 2,000 HIT patients in Japan. (references)

It has hit the bottom and started showing signs of recovery. (references)

Imports of HIT products into Japan are currently quite minimal. (references)

Civil Liberties

Haiti

One opposition member was hit in the head by stones. (references)

Haiti

Police confiscated his tape recorder and hit him with fists and batons. (references)

Pakistan

In July 2000, an Afghan leader, Haji Jan Mohammad, whose name reportedly appeared on a Taliban hit list, was killed by unknown assailants. (references)

Economic History

Iceland

During the 1970s the oil shocks hit Iceland hard. (references)

Pakistan

In FY 1997-98 growth hit 4.3 percent against a target of 6.0 percent. (references)

Norway

Exporters from the U.S. have been hit by this practice several times. (references)

Human Rights

Jamaica

Although no one was hit by gunfire, a baby was taken to the hospital after inhaling tear gas. (references)

Somalia

On July 24, four cars hit landmines on the road linking the Lower Juba and Middle Juba regions. (references)

Sri Lanka

In August a civilian bus travelling to Trincomalee hit a land mine injuring 30 of its passengers. (references)

Minorities

Bulgaria

On September 20, a group of youths hit a Romani boy on the head with a rock on the grounds of his school. (references)

Poland

The Romani community, numbering around 30,000, faced disproportionately high unemployment and was hit harder by economic changes and restructuring than were ethnic Poles, according to its leaders. (references)

Political Economy

Malaysia

Following nearly a decade of strong economic growth averaging over 8 percent annually, it was hit hard by the 1997 regional financial and economic crisis. (references)

Trade

Brazil

The Manaus Free Trade Zone was hard hit by the general lowering of tariff and non-tariff barriers. (references)

Guinea

International financial experts in Conakry noted that the new code hit medium to large expatriate ventures most immediately, and diminished the margin of benefits originally intended to compensate investors for Guinea's poor infrastructure and difficult work environment. (references)

Travel

Portugal

They are thorough to a fault, often pouring over all the documents relative to a negotiation, and not too ready "to just hit the highlights". (references)

Women

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Over a 6-month period, the man had hit and kicked his wife, hit her in the head and damaged her eyes, and pushed her into a stove causing burns to her hands and legs. (references)

Worker Rights

El Salvador

Workers in a number of plants reported verbal abuse, sexual harassment and, in several cases, being hit by a supervisor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hit": a big hit ♦ badly hit ♦ base hit ♦ be hit ♦ cache hit ♦ direct hit ♦ fair hit ♦ free hit ♦ hard hit ♦ he was hit badly ♦ hit a ball on the rebound ♦ hit a mine ♦ hit a problem ♦ hit a smash ♦ hit a snag ♦ hit a target ♦ hit and run ♦ hit and run raid ♦ hit at ♦ hit at smb. ♦ hit back ♦ hit below the belt ♦ hit between wind and water ♦ hit full in the face ♦ hit hard ♦ hit home ♦ hit it ♦ hit it off ♦ hit it off with ♦ hit it off with smb. ♦ hit it up ♦ hit list ♦ hit man ♦ hit off ♦ hit off a likeness ♦ hit off smb. beautifully ♦ hit on ♦ hit on the raw ♦ hit one another ♦ hit one's aim ♦ hit one's elbow ♦ hit oneself ♦ hit or miss ♦ hit or miss affair ♦ hit out ♦ hit out at smb. ♦ hit parade ♦ hit rate ♦ hit rock bottom ♦ hit smb. square on the nose ♦ hit song ♦ hit the books ♦ hit the booze ♦ hit the brakes ♦ hit the bull's eye ♦ hit the ceiling ♦ hit the center of ♦ hit the deck ♦ hit the dirt ♦ hit the ground ♦ hit the hay ♦ hit the headlines ♦ hit the jackpot ♦ hit the mark ♦ hit the nail of the head ♦ hit the nail on the head ♦ hit the pike ♦ hit the pipe ♦ hit the right nail on the head ♦ hit the road ♦ hit the roof ♦ hit the sack ♦ hit the skids ♦ hit the target ♦ hit the wrong key ♦ hit theory ♦ hit upon ♦ hit with fist ♦ line hit ♦ make a hit ♦ phase hit ♦ power hit ♦ sacrifice hit ♦ safe hit ♦ scratch hit ♦ smash hit ♦ take a hit ♦ to hit ♦ To hit off ♦ To hit on ♦ To hit out ♦ To hit the nail on the head ♦ to hit the sack ♦ to hit upon ♦ you've hit it!. Additional references.

Beginning with "hit": hit-and-miss, hit-and-run, hit-and-run accident, hit-and-run case, hit-and-run driver, hit-and-run driving, hit-flick, hit-gag, hit-in, hit-left, hit-list, hit-machine, hit-making, hit-man, hit-men, hit-money, hit-or-miss, hit-parade, hit-rate, hit-run, hit-single, hit-song, hit-squad, hit-squads, hit-teams, hit-that-never, hit-the, hit-them, hit-wicket.

Ending with "hit": bomb-hit, crisis-hit, flood-hit, hardest-hit, injury-hit, mis-hit, rain-hit, recession-hit, scandal-hit, slump-hit, smash-hit, worst-hit.

Containing "hit": no-hit game, one-hit-one-kill, one-hit-wonders.

Afrikaans

tref (catch, run, run across, strike), klap (knock, strike). (various references)

Albanian

goditje (assault, bang, bash, batting, beat, biff, blow, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clean and jerk, clip, dash, dint, drive, fib, flap, ictus, impingement, incitement, infliction, jab, joggle, jolt, knock, knocking, lick, percussion, poke, pound, push, shock, slat, sock, stimulus, strike, stroke, thrust, thwack, tremor, welt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضربة في كرة التنس, ‏أصاب الهدف (hit a target, hit one's aim, strike home, touch), ‏إرتطام (plash, plonk), ‏إرتطم (barge into, bump, impinge, lap, stub), ‏إصابة (cannon, goal, hitting, infection), ‏إكتشف (be discovered, bring to light, come to light, detect, dig out, discover, figure out, find, find out, get wind of, glean, learn, nose, rout, rummage, search, spot, strike, uncover, unearth), ‏صد (alienation, baffle, balk, baulk, bear down, beat, beat off, blast, estop, estoppel, exclusion, fend, fend off, fight off, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push aside, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stave, stay, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off), ‏صدم (be shocked, bump, offend, percuss, ram, shock, strike, stub), ‏أصاب (bilge, blast, come, get, infect, inflict, pick off, shoot, strike), ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏هاجم (assault, attack, batter, belabour, beset, challenge, charge, contravene, dispute, jump, lace, layabout, light into, mount an offensive, peck, press, prey on, prong, rush, set about, storm, strafe, strike), ‏سدد (aim, charge, clear, discharge, predominate, shoot), ‏توافق مع, ‏غارة خاطفة, ‏وجد (ecstasy, ecstatic, find, get it, locate, manage, passion, puzzle out, rhapsody, trance), ‏وفق إلى, ‏لاقى نجاحا, ‏نجاح (go, god speed, prosperity, success), ‏صدمة (concussion, impact, jar, jolt, shock, stun, trauma). (various references)

Basque

kolpe (blow, knock, stroke). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нанасям удар (put in a blow), попадам (alight, fall, happen upon), попадам в целта (get home), попадение (strike), поемам (absorb, accept, defray, draw, receive, strike, take, take in), пристигам в (make), бивам публикуван, бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), засягам (advert, affect, afflict, apply, bruise, concern, effect, hurt, import, offend, pique, refer, regard, tell, touch, treat of), нападка (taunt), достигам (abut upon, achieve, acquire, carry down, come, come by, come down, fetch, gain, greet, grow, reach, scale, turn, win), намирам (be found, detect, discover, find, fit in, found, get, hunt out, judge, land, locate, look up, raise, regard, root out, root up, run down, rustle up, scare up, secure, see, strike, track down, turn up), успех (advancement, do, fortune, progress, purpose, speed, success, up), отгатвам (guess, nose, psyche, riddle, tell), късмет (cast, chance, fortune, godsend, hap, jam, kismet, luck, pudding-bag, score, stroke of luck), шлагер, случвам (become), сарказъм (acerbity, nip, pungency, sarcasm, sneer), сензация (boom, sensation, shine, splash, stir), удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), удрям се (bump, collide, impinge, jar, stump), улучвам (connect, get, grass, hit the right nail on the head), налучквам (pick out). (various references)

Chinese 

掊 (break up, M for small objects, take up in both hands), 命中, 中 (among, center, China, Chinese, during, in, middle, while, within). (various references)

Czech

zasáhnout (catch, get, strike, sweep), uhodit (catch, strike). (various references)

Danish

slå (beat, cut, mow, strike), banke (knock, strike). (various references)

Dutch

slaan (beat, knock, mark, sound, stamp, strike), kloppen (be correct, be right, beat, come to an agreement, knock, pulsate, strike, throb), klappen (beat, clap, click, knock, rattle, strike), houwen (beat, chop, cut, hack, strike). (various references)

Esperanto

trafi (catch, run across, strike), furoro (craze), frapi (knock, strike), bati (beat, strike). (various references)

Faeroese

sláa (beat, cut, mow, strike), raka (catch, run across, shave, strike), ráma (catch, run across, strike), berja (beat, strike), banka (knock, strike). (various references)

Farsi 

گاهی موفق وگاهی مغلوب . (various references)

Finnish

osuma, lyödä (beat, slap, strike). (various references)

French

heurter, frapper, battre, toucher, coup. (various references)

Frisian

huffe (beat, strike), treffe (catch, come across, encounter, meet, run across, see, strike, to meet). (various references)

German

schlagen (bang, bash, bat, batter about, beat, belt, best, biff, birch, blast, break, Bury, capture, chime, clang, clout, defeat, fell, flap, flog, hack out, kick, kill, knock, knock about, knock around, knock out, lap, lash, mint, outride, Pat, pound, pounding, pummel, punch, punching, rattle, rattling, sing, slap, slash, slat, smack, smite, spank, stricken, strike, swat, take, throb, thump, thwack, to bang, to bash, to batter, to blast, to knock (at), to rap, to slap, trim, wallop, wash, whip, whip up, whisk), treffer (goal, hits, winner), treffen (affect, assignation, bump up against, catch, connect, encounter, find, hit upon, hurt, impinge, make, meet, meet with, meeting, meetings, rally, reach, reunion, reunions, run across, stricken, strike, take, to encounter), schlager (bestseller, hit song, pop song, vocal), hauen (bash, beat, belt, carve, chop, chuck, clap, clobber, clout, conk, cut, cutting, fling, hack, hew, hewed, hoes, knock, lash out, make a thrust, quarry, sculpture, shove, slap, slash, sock, strike, thump, to bash), anfahren (approach, deliver, drive up, jump at, jump on, pull up, put in at, round on, run down, run into, sail into, shout at, snub, start up, stop at). (various references)

Greek 

σουξέ (success), χτυπώ (beat, beat up, beaten, chime, clank, clap, clink, clip, clobber, hurt, jangle, knock, punish, slosh, smite, spank, strike, strike down, swat, thrash, thump). (various references)

Hawaiian

goditje (beat, strike). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכה (blow, bump, cut, defeat, knock, plague, smash, striking, stroke, swat), מהלומה (blow, knock, pound, smash, stroke, thunderclap), לקלוע (jerk, wreathe), לפגוע במטרה (score a bull's eye), להיט (ardently, jingle, smash, with passion), להכות (affict, beat, defeat, flap, hurt, kill, knock, plaque, smite, strike, stroke, swipe, wound), להרביץ (beat, cause to sit down, disseminate, smack, spank, sprinkle, strike), פגיעה (blow, damage, detriment, harm, hurt, impact, incidence, injury, insult, offence, shot), פגוע, היכה (beat). (various references)

Hungarian

találat (cock-shy), siker (go, show, success), megüt (bash, beat, rap, slap, slosh, to beat, to bop, to clout, to hit, to rap, to slap, to spike, to wham), eltalál (pinpoint, to hit), becsapódás (angle of incidence, impact, infall, slam), ütés (bang, bash, beat, blow, bump, bust, clap, clash, clashing, clinker, clout, cut, dent, jab, jolt, kick, knock, knocking, percussion, prod, punch, slap, slosh, snick, spank, strike, striking, stroke, swipe, thump, thwack, to come to bat, whack, wham). (various references)

Icelandic

slá (beat, strike). (various references)

Indonesian

pukul, menggebrak (crash, instigate, thump), mengampai (hang on, hang out), mencepol, centang (tick off). (various references)

Irish

buail. (various references)

Italian

picchiare (batter, beat, belt, come to blows, cuff, fight, knock, slap, slat, slug, sock, strike, tap, thump, whack), colpire (affect, bang, beat, buffet, bump, catch, clout, damage, dazzle, jab, knock, Lam, pelt, poke, pound, punch, rap, run across, shock, shoot, slap, smite, sock, spear, strike, strike down, swat, swipe, thwack), battere (bang, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belabour, chime, clobber, detonate, flail, flap, flog, flutter, fly, hammer, knock, lambaste, maul, mint, outplay, overcome, pound, pulsate, rap, strike, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, whack, whip, win). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ヒステリー性格 (backside, be a hit, buttocks, hickory, hip cut, hip pad, hipbone skirt, hip-hop, hippie style, hippy, hips, hip-up girdle, Hispanic, hiss noise, histogram, history, hit chart, hit man, hit parade, hit song, hit-and-run, hitch-hike, Hitler, hitting, hysteric, hysterical personality, safe hit, success), 殴打　 (strike), 殴打 (strike), 成功　 (success), 成功 (success), 当たり (neighborhood, per ..., reaching the mark, success, vicinity), 当り (neighborhood, per ..., reaching the mark, success, vicinity), 命中弾 (straight shot). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おうだ (strike), ヒット (be a hit, safe hit, success), せいこう (affection, bull's eye, character and conduct, crude, delicate, elaborate, exquisite, immature, mark, point, sexual intercourse, steel manufacture, success, unpolished, western suburb), あたり (nearby, neighborhood, neighbourhood, per ..., reaching the mark, success, vicinity), めいちゅうだん (straight shot). (various references)

Korean 

명중 (hitting). (various references)

Malay

pukul (catch, run across, strike), memukul (catch, run across, strike). (various references)

Manx

labbal (banging, bash, buffeting, clout, clouting, cuff, hitting, knock, strike, striking, thump, thumping), cur da (allow expenses, append, beat up, belabour, clock, contribute, enhance, etc, give over, hammer, lash, pass over; article to trade, scold, thrash), bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hammer, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop), builley (bash, beat, beat as pulse, bump, cadence, cadence of voice, cast, choosing, clap, fervour, fit, frenzy, impact, knock, madness, pulsate, pulsation, punch, slam, slap, strike, stroke, sweep, thump, toot, toot on horn, whack), ard-speeideilys. (various references)

Maya

hadz (to hit). (various references)

Norwegian

slå (beat, flop, strike). (various references)

Occitan

còp (blow, knock, stroke). (various references)

Papiamen

raka (catch, run across, strike), gòlpi (beat, push, strike), dal (beat, strike), bati (beat, strike). (various references)

Pig Latin

ithay.(various references)

Polish

uderzać (knock, strike), trafić (catch, run across, strike), pukać (knock, strike), bić (beat, strike). (various references)

Portuguese

bater (bang, bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, biff, bob, bop, brandish, chastise, churn, clap, club, curl, curry, deckle, dodder, fling, flog, forge, form, froth, hunt, jab, knead, knock, lam, lap, lick, plash, pulsate, pulse, ram, scutch, slap, slog, sound, splash, stir, strike, swing, thrash, thresh, type, wave, whack, whip, whirl, whisk, worst), atingir (accomplish, achieve, arrive, attain, catch, culminate, gain, get, get around, get hold of, import, measure up to, overtake, reach, run, run across, run to, smite, strike, touch), acertar (catch, guess, level, regulate, run across, set, strike). (various references)

Romanian

bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst). (various references)

Russian 

ударить (catch, ram, run across, socked, socking, strike). (various references)

Scottish

eirmis, airmis. (various references)

Sepedi

betha (to hit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zviznuti (swish, whistle), zveknuti (smack, strike), veliki uspeh, udariti (bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, conk, drive in, hack, jog, knock, paw, percuss, poke, punch, ram, rap, shock, strike, stub, swipe, wallop, whack), udarati (beat, pound, strike, throb), udarac (beat, blow, bogey, bunt, dig, impact, jolt, lash, lick, puff, punch, stroke, thwack, wallop, whack), pogoditi (affect, nail, plug, score), pogodak (shot), plaćeno ubistvo, naleteti (cannon, ram, run in, run into), lupiti (bang, bump, rap, smite), lupati (bang, knock, pound, rack, tap, throb), šlager. (various references)

Spanish

golpear (bang, bat, beat, beat up on, beetle, bop, buffet, bump, clip, clobber, club, drive, flail, jab, kick, knock, lash, punch, rap, rattle, slam, slap, slice, slog, smash, smite, strike, tee off, thrash, thump, wallop, whack), acertar (catch, find, guess, meeting, run across, strike), pegar (affix, attach, beat, beat up on, belt, catch, cement, fasten, give, glue, hang, have, knock about, Lam, live through, paste, paste up, plug, post, pump, put up, roam, sew, sew on, slap, slosh, slug, smack, sock, stick, stick down, stick on, stick together, strike, swipe, tag on, take, thrash, tie on, touch, trounce, welt), llamar (appeal to, beckon, buzz, call, call back, call in, call off, call over, call up, call upon, draw, engage, get, get on to, give a ring, have in, hollo, holloa, invoke, knock, knock up, name, recall, ring, ring the bell, ring up, strike, summon, term, to call, touch off, whip in). (various references)

Sranan

naki (beat, strike), fon (beat, strike). (various references)

Swedish

träff (date, gathering, get together, meeting, rendezvous), slå (bang, bash, beat, bolt, buffet, cap, capture, cast, catch, crossbar, dash, defeat, dial, drive, flap, hurt smb., hurtle, impinge, knock, lay, lick, mow, palpitate, pour, punch, ram, sit, slam, slap, slat, smash, smite, strike, stroke, tack, throw, trounce, warble, whang, whip), drabba (affect, beat, come to, smite, strike), träffa (catch, fall in with, get, hit off, make, meet, see, smite, strike). (various references)

Thai

ได้แต้ม (ทางกีฬา), ชน (bump, on), ทำได้สำเร็จ, การตี (drub, licking), ตี (drub, dub, smite on, smite upon, zonk), มีผลกระทบ. (various references)

Turkish

olmak (be, be situated, become, befall, come about, come off, come over, eventuate, exist, fare, get, go, go on, grow, hap, happen, hatch, have, mature, occur, take place, turn), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb), üzmek (affect, afflict, aggrieve, agitate, break up, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry), şans (auspiciousness, chance, fluke, flukey, fluky, fortune, good luck, hap, hazard, inning, innings, luck, odds, opportunity, shot, show, star, turnup), başarı (accomplishment, achievement, click, deed, effort, feat, go, joy, performance, prosperity, show, smash, speed, stroke, success, triumph, victory, win), bulmak (ascertain, clear up, cogitate, contrive, devise, discover, find, go for, happen on, happen upon, invent, meet, obtain, procure, provide with, reach, reason, strike, strike out, study out, turn up), darbe (bash, beat, biff, blow, brunt, bump, chop, clip, clout, concussion, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, crusher, cut, dash, facer, finisher, hack, ictus, impact, jolt, kayo, knock, pound, putsch, shock, smasher, stroke, thwack, whack, whammy), isabet (hitting, incidence), isabet etmek (hit upon, strike), isabet ettirmek (hit the mark, reach), çıkış (ascent, boom, check out, egress, exit, issue, out, outlet, outrun, power output, rising, sortie, start, starting, up, way out), laf çaktırma (allusion, pinprick, rub), yumruk atmak (box, deal a blow at smb., deal smb. a blow, dot smb. one, fist, hit out, paste, paste smb. one, plug, punch, soak, thump), rastgelmek (come across, hap, happen on, happen upon, meet by chance), sarsmak (affect, afflict, agitate, buffet, buffet about, concuss, convulse, cut up, depolarise, dislocate, erode, give a jerk, horrify, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, reduce, rock, shake, shake up, shock, undermine, unsettle), taş (allusion, calculus, concretion, dig, Flint, gem, gibe, gravel, innuendo, jeer, jibe, lapidary, piece, rock, stone), ulaşmak (achieve, aggregate, approach, arrive, attain, come, come at, come to, come up to, come up with, effect, figure out at, gain, get at, live up to, reach, win), varmak (approach, arrive, arrive at, attain, come at, come to, end up, get, get at, get to, go into, make, reach), vurma (blip, dash, knock, knocking, percussion, percussive, pound, pounding, shoot, strike, swat), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), vuruş (bat, battery, batting, beat, beating, chop, crack, crusher, cut, hack, impact, knock, plug, pulse, scoop, shoot, shot, sock, strike, stroke, swat, thwack, whack, wipe), yaralamak (bruise, chafe, hurt, injure, lacerate, maul, pip, prick, rasp, scotch, wound), kiralık katilin hedefi. (various references)

Turkmen 

patlamak (strike). (various references)

Ukrainian

успіх (achievement, advance, advancement, big time, career, luck, prosperity, success), ударяти (beat, bump, bunt, bust, dab, knock, smite, strike), удар (bat, beat, biff, bobbing, buffet, bunt, cant, chop, clap, cracker, impact, impingement, impulsion, jolt, kick, knock, onslaught, percussion, pick, push, put, shock, shot, smite, spat, stab, strike, stroke, tick, tilt, wap), влучати в ціль, влучання, забитися (hurt oneself, leap), бити (bang, batter, beat, castigate, chastise, chime, cob, lambaste, lay into, maul, sing out, souse, thump, towel, trounce, whop), поштовх (concussion, fillip, hitch, impetus, impulse, jog, joggle, kick, poke, propulsion, push, put, shake, shock, thrust, toss). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc đạt kết quả, nhận xét gay gắt, bắn, đòn (beater, trick). (various references)

Welsh

taro (beat, hot, knock, smite, stick, strike, suit, tap). (various references)

Yucatec

hats'ik (beat, strike, whip), p'uchik (beat, strike). (various references)

Zulu

-shaya (beat, strike), -ngqongqoza (knock, strike). (various references)

tag. (various references)

acrabattene, battuo, feri, feriam, ferias, feriatis, feriatur, feriet, ferietis, ferietque, ferio, ferire, feriret, feriretis, feris, feriunt, icamian, Ico, ictu, ictum, ictus, infligo inflixi inflictum, laedo ledo, offendo, treicientes. (various references)

touchier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "hit": hitch, hitched, hitcher, hitchers, hitches, hitchhike, hitchhiked, hitchhiker, hitchhikers, hitchhikes, hitchhiking, hitching, hither, hithermost, hitherto, hitherward, hitless, hits, hitter, hitters, hitting. (additional references)

Words ending with "hit": chit, megahit, outhit, superhit, whit. (additional references)

Words containing "hit": amphitheater, amphitheaters, amphitheatric, amphitheatrical, amphitheatrically, anorthite, anorthites, anorthitic, antirachitic, antiwhite, architect, architectonic, architectonically, architectonics, architects, architectural, architecturally, architecture, architectures, architrave, architraves, bobwhite, bobwhites, bronchitic, bronchitis, bronchitises, chital, chitals, chitchat, chitchats, chitchatted, chitchatting, chitin, chitinous, chitins, chitlin, chitling, chitlings, chitlins, chiton, chitons, chitosan, chitosans, chits, chitter, chittered, chittering, chitterlings, chitters, chitties, chitty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahti, ghit, hait, haith, hatt, hct, hect, heet, heit, hept, hett, heyt, Hfi, Hgi, Hhi, hia, hiat, hiati, hib, hict, hiet, Hiett, hif, hig, hii, hij, hik, Hio, hipt, hiq, hirt, Hita, hith, hiti, hito, Hitt, hitta, hitti, hitu, hity, Hitz, hiu, hiv, hix, hiy, hiz, hizt, hki, hoht, hst, hte, Hti, htm, htn, htp, htx, hty, Huit, hutt, hvit, Hwita, hyst, hyte, hyv, ih, Ihf, Ihr, Khit, ohit, phit, thit, uit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hi, it, ti.

+1 letter: chit, hilt, hint, hist, hits, itch, kith, pith, sith, thin, thio, thir, this, whit, with.

+2 letters: airth, aitch, baith, bight, birth, bitch, chits, dhoti, dhuti, dight, ditch, eight, ethic, faith, fifth, fight, filth, firth, fitch, frith, girth, grith, habit, heist, hight, hilts, hints, hists, hitch, hoist, itchy, ither, kithe, kiths, laith, lathi, licht, light, lithe, litho, might, mirth, night, ninth, pitch, piths, pithy, right, saith, shift, shirt, shist, shtik, sight, sixth, smith, stich, swith, thein, their, thick, thief, thigh, thill, thine, thing, think, thins, thiol, third, thirl, thrip, thymi, tight, tilth, tithe, tophi, whipt, whist, white, whits, whity, width, wight, witch, withe, withy, yirth.