Definitions for hitting

Overview of noun hitting

The noun hitting has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. hit, hitting, striking

(the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit")

Overview of verb hit

The verb hit has 17 senses? (first 10 from tagged texts)

1. (25) hit

(cause to move by striking; "hit a ball")

2. (21) hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with

(hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow")

3. (18) hit

(deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face")

4. (9) reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain

(reach a destination, either real or abstract; "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")

5. (8) hit, strike

(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")

6. (8) shoot, hit, pip

(hit with a missile from a weapon)

7. (3) stumble, hit

(encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant")

8. (3) score, hit, tally, rack up

(gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season")

9. (2) hit, strike, come to

(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")

10. (2) strike, hit

(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")

11. murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove

(kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered")

12. hit, strike

(drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling")

13. reach, hit, attain

(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")

14. strike, hit

(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")

15. hit

(consume to excess; "hit the bottle")

16. hit

(hit the intended target or goal)

17. hit

(pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars")