hit

About 32.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hittite.
2. verb To strike. To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

   One boy hit the other.

3. verb To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

   One boy hit the other.

4. verb To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

   The ball hit the fence.

5. verb To strike against something.

   I can't get anything to hit at that distance.

6. verb To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.

   Hit the Enter key to continue.

7. verb To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

   Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.

8. verb To attack, especially amphibiously.

   If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.

Similar words

smash bang striking bump collision run into dispatch bump off slay stumble

Often followed by

the by a him me upon it on her

Word family

hit her up hit him up hit it up hit me up hit one up hit the bottle hit them up hit us up hit you up hitless