hit

Pronunciation: /hɪt/

The English word “hit” has 20 meanings listed here.

verb

To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
To strike against something.
To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
To attack, especially amphibiously.
To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
To switch on or switch off (lights).
To commence playing.
To briefly visit.
To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
To reach or achieve.
To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
To guess; to light upon or discover.
To affect negatively.
To attack.
In blackjack, to deal a card to.
To come up to bat.
To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian hitte (“to meet”), Dutch hitten (“to hit,…

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