hit
/hɪt/ verb A2- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile. · One boy hit the other.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly. · The ball hit the fence.
- To strike against something. · I can't get anything to hit at that distance.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it. · Hit the Enter key to continue.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party. · Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
- To attack, especially amphibiously. · If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person. · Their coffee really hits the spot.· I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place. · I hit the jackpot.· You can't hit the high notes in that song!
He/she/it hits · Past hit · Past participle hit · -ing form hitting
Verb forms
- Base form
- hit
- He/she/it
- hits
- Past
- hit
- Past participle
- hit
- -ing form
- hitting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“A barrowful of _what?_” thought Alice; 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.
A python four or five feet long can knock a man down if he hits him fairly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you know.
Wait my coming, O most infamous Bandar-log!” He panted up the terrace only to disappear to the head in a wave of monkeys, but he threw himself squarely on his haunches, and, spreading out his forepaws, hugged as many as he could hold, and then began to hit with a regular bat-bat-bat, like the flipping strokes of a paddle wheel.
Marilla made no reply, but she hit the unlucky sorrel such a vicious clip with the whip that the fat mare, unused to such treatment, whizzed indignantly down the lane at an alarming pace.
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