hit

hit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of hit in a sentence

• We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.
• He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves:
• I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game:
• Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance:
• As soon as we hit Jazzafrazz Town, we were overcome by the glitz and the glamour.2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area...

All 40 example sentences with hit

Synonyms of hit

• beat
• bump off
• beset
• bang
• smoke up
• toke
• hit the gym
• HIIT
• pelt
• thump

Antonyms

• miss
• LISS
• block
• flop
• turkey

All synonyms and antonyms of hit

Forms of hit

Past tense of hit: hit

Plural of hit: hits

Origin of hit

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, encounter”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Faroese, Icelandic, Swedish hitta (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk hitta, hitte (“to meet; to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”). Probably also related to Dutch hei (“mallet”), German Heie (“wooden hammer, mallet”). (something very successful): Compare typologically striking, Russian порази́тельный (porazítelʹnyj) (<~ порази́ть (porazítʹ) <~ рази́ть (razítʹ)).

From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it; also note 'it.

From Ottoman Turkish هیت (Hit) and Arabic هيت (Hit).

Words formed from hit

• hits
• hitself
• a hit dog will holler
• don't let the door hit you on the way out
• flood-hit
• hard-hitting
• hit above one's weight
• hit a brick wall
• hit a clip
• hit a false note
• hit a home run
• hit a lick
• hit and hope
• hit-and-miss
• hit and run
• hit a nerve
• hit-a-pin bagatelle
• hit a raw nerve
• hit a six
• hit a snag
• hit a stain
• hit at
• hit a wall
• hit away
• hit back
• hit below one's weight
• hit below the belt
• hit bottom
• hit different
• hit hard
• hit home
• hit into the long grass
• hit it
• hit it and quit it
• hit it big
• hit it for six
• hit it from the back
• hit it off
• hit it out of the park
• hit it up
• hit licks
• hit like a ton of bricks
• hit like a truck
• hitman
• hit me
• hit off
• hit off the line
• hit on
• hit on all cylinders
• hit on all six
• hit one hard
• hit one out of the ball park
• hit one out of the ballpark
• hit one's marks
• hit one's straps
• hit one's stride
• hit out
• hit out of the park
• hit pause
• hit paydirt

Related words

• HI
• HSD
• HITS

Phrases with hit

• hit up
• hit job
• hit man
• hit men
• hit ups
• base hit
• bong hit
• cult hit
• hard hit
• hit list
• hit send
• hit test

Words that rhyme with hit

• bit
• pit
• sit
• split
• fit
• it
• shit
• remit
• commit
• quit
• kit
• knit

Questions about hit

What does hit mean?

Hit means to administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

What is hit in Hindi?

Hit in Hindi is मारना (mārnā). See Hit meaning in Hindi.

How do you use hit in a sentence?

We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.

What part of speech is hit?

Hit can be a verb, a noun, an adjective or a pronoun.

How do you pronounce hit?

Hit is pronounced /hɪt/.

What is the past tense of hit?

The past tense of hit is hit.