Meaning : Cause to move by striking.

Example : Hit a ball.

Meaning : Hit against. Come into sudden contact with.

Example : The car hit a tree.
He struck the table with his elbow.

Synonyms : collide with, impinge on, run into, strike

Meaning : Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.

Example : He hit her hard in the face.

Meaning : Reach a destination, either real or abstract.

Example : 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.

Synonyms : arrive at, attain, gain, make, reach

Meaning : Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely.

Example : We were hit by really bad weather.
He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager.
The earthquake struck at midnight.

Synonyms : strike

Meaning : Hit with a missile from a weapon.

Synonyms : pip, shoot

Meaning : Encounter by chance.

Example : I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant.

Synonyms : stumble

Meaning : Gain points in a game.

Example : The home team scored many times.
He hit a home run.
He hit .300 in the past season.

Synonyms : rack up, score, tally

Meaning : Cause to experience suddenly.

Example : 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.

Synonyms : come to, strike

Meaning : Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target.

Example : 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.

Synonyms : strike

Meaning : Kill intentionally and with premeditation.

Example : The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered.

Synonyms : bump off, dispatch, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay

Meaning : Drive something violently into a location.

Example : He hit his fist on the table.
She struck her head on the low ceiling.

Synonyms : strike

Meaning : Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level.

Example : The thermometer hit 100 degrees.
This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour.

Synonyms : attain, reach

Meaning : Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments.

Example : The pianist strikes a middle C.
Strike `z' on the keyboard.

Synonyms : strike

Meaning : Hit the intended target or goal.

Meaning : Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to.

Example : He tries to hit on women in bars.

Meaning : (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).

Example : He came all the way around on Williams' hit.

Meaning : The act of contacting one thing with another.

Example : Repeated hitting raised a large bruise.
After three misses she finally got a hit.

Synonyms : hitting, striking

Meaning : A conspicuous success.

Example : 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.

Synonyms : bang, smash, smasher, strike

Meaning : (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together.

Example : The collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction.

Synonyms : collision

Meaning : A dose of a narcotic drug.

Meaning : A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate.

Example : It has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit.

Meaning : A connection made via the internet to another website.

Example : WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide.